Thoughts And Thinking Quotes - Page 2

• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

  Bill Meyer

  Inspiring, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• Nurture your mind with great thoughts

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Hero, Inspiration

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Three, Action

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• With our thoughts we make the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, Prejudice, Rearranging

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• The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.317

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Retirement, Thinking, Mind

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• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Peace, Thinking

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Positive, Thinking, Power Of Thought

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

  Alan Alda

  Change, Teaching, Humility

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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  Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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