Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

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

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo