Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Einstein, Albert

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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