Quotes about thoughts and thinking

"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 on thoughts and thinking
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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

Montale, Eugenio on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."

Nathan, George Jean on thoughts and thinking   

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

Newton, Sir Isaac on thoughts and thinking   

"When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking   

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

Nightingale, Earl on thoughts and thinking
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"You become what you think about."

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

Paine, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

Paine, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking is heavily endorsed."

Pancoast, Mal on thoughts and thinking   

"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on thoughts and thinking   

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

Pascal, Blaise on thoughts and thinking   

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

Pascal, Blaise on 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 on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking."

Patton, George S. on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

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

Peale, Norman Vincent on thoughts and thinking   

"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."

Peale, Norman Vincent on thoughts and thinking
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"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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."

Po, Huang on thoughts and thinking   

"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

Poe, Edgar Allan on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt."

Proverb, Italian on thoughts and thinking   

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

Quarles, Francis on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts."

Robbins, Anthony on thoughts and thinking   

"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."

Robinson, James H. on thoughts and thinking   

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"To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts."

Rostand, Jean on thoughts and thinking   

"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

Rushdie, Salman on thoughts and thinking
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"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 on thoughts and thinking   

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

Russell, Bertrand on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man."

Russell, Bertrand on thoughts and thinking   

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

Russell, Bertrand on thoughts and thinking   

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

Santayana, George on thoughts and thinking   

"The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter."

Satta, Salvatore on thoughts and thinking