Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Fredrich

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Huxley, Aldous

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Horton, Doug

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barzan, George

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

May, Louise

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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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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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

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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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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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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.