Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fredrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Young, Eva

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

May, Louise

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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