Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Butler, Samuel

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Kettering, Charles F.