Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

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

Madwed, Sidney

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac