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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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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

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

May, Louise

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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Think then act safely.

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

Barzan, George

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

Patton, George S.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Young, Eva

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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