Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

- Bentham, Jeremy

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Young, Eva

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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.

Schwartz, David J.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.