Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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]

Bible

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Fredrich

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Voltaire

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Quarles, Francis

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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.