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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Think then act safely.

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

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

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

May, Louise

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Fredrich

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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

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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Nightingale, Earl

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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