Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.