Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

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

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

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Secker, Thomas

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David