Thoughts And Thinking Quotations

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.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

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

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.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

The power of thought, the magic of the mind.

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

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

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, ''I'll win,'' not ''I'll probably lose.'' When you compete with someone else, think, ''I'm equal to the best,'' not ''I'm out-classed.'' When opportunity appears, think ''I can do it,'' never ''I can't. Let the master thought ''I-will-succeed'' dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of 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.

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.

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.

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

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

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

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

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

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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

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

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

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

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

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

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.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.