Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Fredrich

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Frye, Northrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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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