Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bible

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

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

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Arrington, Eva

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Barzan, George

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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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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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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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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

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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