Quotes about thoughts and thinking

"We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"What is the hardest thing in the world? To think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on 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. on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking
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"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."

Fix, Paul on thoughts and thinking
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"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on thoughts and thinking   

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

Forbes, Malcolm S. on thoughts and thinking   

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

Forster, Edward M. on thoughts and thinking   

"Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age."

Fredrich on thoughts and thinking   

"What was once thought can never be unthought."

Friedrich, Carl J. on thoughts and thinking   

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

Frost, Robert on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on thoughts and thinking   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Those that think must govern those that toil."

Goldsmith, Oliver on thoughts and thinking   

"If I look confused it is because I am thinking."

Goldwyn, Samuel on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought would destroy their paradise."

Gray, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

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

Halifax, Edward F. on thoughts and thinking
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"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."

Hall, Robert on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

Hare, David on thoughts and thinking
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"How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory."

Harris, Franco on thoughts and thinking
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"Every thought we think is creating our future."

Hay, Louise L. on thoughts and thinking   

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts."

Hazlitt, William on thoughts and thinking   

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"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."

Henri, Robert on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking
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"Carve every word before you let it fall."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"Sloppy thinking gets worse over time."

Holzer, Jenny on thoughts and thinking   

"Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking   

"The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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