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

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Allen, James

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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 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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Think then act safely.

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

Braden, Vic

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Young, Eva

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Fredrich