Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, 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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Byron, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Braden, Vic

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bible

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Jefferson, Thomas