Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Po, Huang

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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