Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Einstein, Albert

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forster, Edward M.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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 is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Young, Eva

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

May, Louise

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