Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proverb, Italian

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

May, Louise

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Allen, James

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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

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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

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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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.