Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.