Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Winfrey, Oprah

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Po, Huang

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barzan, George

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

Fredrich

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Voltaire

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo