Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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.

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

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

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Bourget, Paul

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

May, Louise

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson