Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Duranty, Walter

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Watson, Thomas J.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Barzan, George

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Voltaire

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.