Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Byron, Lord

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Barzan, George

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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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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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 wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal