Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Braden, Vic

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

May, Louise

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang