Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Steere, Bishop

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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Think then act safely.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barzan, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Patton, George S.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

May, Louise

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak