Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Po, Huang

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Brookner, Anita

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think then act safely.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.