Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Aron, Elaine N.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.