Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

- Huxley, Julian S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Buddha

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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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

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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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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney