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

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

Voltaire

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

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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 how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Young, Eva

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Arrington, Eva

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Fredrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Patton, George S.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay