Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

- Kant, Immanuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

May, Louise

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barzan, George

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

Secker, Thomas

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Italian

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, 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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.