Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

Bacon, Francis

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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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.

Buddha

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Patton, George S.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 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.

Maharshi, Ramana

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.