Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Frost, Robert

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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 we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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