Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Martin, Steve

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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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

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Halifax, Edward 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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Allen, James

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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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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.