Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

- Wilde, Oscar

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Think then act safely.

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott