Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Byron, Lord

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Barzan, George

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.