Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Steere, Bishop

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Duranty, Walter

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

May, Louise

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark