Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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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

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buddha

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo