Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Cousins, Norman

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Braden, Vic

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

May, Louise

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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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 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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Bible

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.