Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Secker, Thomas

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Voltaire

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.