Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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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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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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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Voltaire

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

May, Louise

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Emerick, John J.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne