Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Forster, Edward M.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Secker, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Thoughts are forces.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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 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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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