Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Think then act safely.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fredrich

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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