Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

- Tzara, Tristan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Young, Eva

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

Einstein, Albert

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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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

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

May, Louise

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Butler, Samuel