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

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

Kempis, Thomas

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell