Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

- Duranty, Walter

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Arrington, Eva

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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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

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

May, Louise

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.