Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

- Adams, Bryan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Dryden, John

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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.

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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

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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

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.