Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

- Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Po, Huang

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

May, Louise

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Voltaire

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Secker, Thomas

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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

Byron, Lord

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Confucius

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David