Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Buddha

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.