Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Paine, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Martin, Steve

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Allen, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Patton, George S.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Barzan, George

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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