Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

- Montale, Eugenio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hugo, Victor

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Barzan, George

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent