Quotes about thoughts and thinking

"Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

Hugo, Victor on thoughts and thinking
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

Hume, David on thoughts and thinking
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"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."

Huxley, Aldous on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."

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"Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct."

Huxley, Julian S. on thoughts and thinking   

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]"

Bible on thoughts and thinking
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on thoughts and thinking
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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

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"He that never thinks can never be wise."

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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 on thoughts and thinking   

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

Kempis, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

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

Kettering, Charles F. on thoughts and thinking
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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. on thoughts and thinking   

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

Kierkegaard, Søren on thoughts and thinking
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"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

King Jr. Martin Luther on thoughts and thinking
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"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."

Landor, Walter Savage on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on thoughts and thinking   

"As you think, so shall you become."

Lee, Bruce on thoughts and thinking
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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. on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

Lippmann, Walter on thoughts and thinking   

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"The average person thinks he isn't."

Lorenzoni, Larry on thoughts and thinking   

"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."

Luce, Clare Boothe on thoughts and thinking   

"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent."

Mackay, Charles on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings."

Madwed, Sidney on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!"

Mandino, Og on thoughts and thinking
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"If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

Marquis, Don on thoughts and thinking   

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."

Martin, Steve on thoughts and thinking   

"No brain is stronger than its weakest think."

Masson, Thomas L. on thoughts and thinking   

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

May, Louise on thoughts and thinking   

"I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought."

Mizner, Wilson on thoughts and thinking