Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

- Faber, Frederick W.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Young, Eva

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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 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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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Braden, Vic

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

Horton, Doug

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

Fredrich

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.