Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

- Woolf, Virginia

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Arrington, Eva

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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