Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick