Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

- Dyer, Wayne

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Twain, Mark

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Fredrich

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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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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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.