Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Patton, George S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Stevens, Wallace

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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.

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

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

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Po, Huang

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Bible

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich