Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Braden, Vic

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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 thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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