Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Buddha

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stevens, Wallace

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Confucius

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Frost, Robert

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David