Best Thought Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“What is birthday, but a celebration of death.”

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

“How I wish I was like the water,”

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”

“Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better”

“I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.”

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

“Remembrance and reflection how allied!”

“In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.”

“It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.”

“You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.”

“Life is difficult.”

“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”

“Thoughts don't become things; thoughts ARE things.”

“Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.”

“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'”

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”

“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.”

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

“I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.”

“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”

“Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.”

“We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.”

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT”