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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Byron, Lord

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

Martin, Steve

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

Pascal, Blaise

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Allen, James

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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

Braden, Vic

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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