Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think then act safely.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Confucius

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Patton, George S.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas