Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

- Young, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent