Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Voltaire

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.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Barzan, George

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Patton, George S.

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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