Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Confucius

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

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

May, Louise

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Young, Eva

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What was once thought can never be unthought.