Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

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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 Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horton, Doug

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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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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.

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

May, Louise

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

Voltaire

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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