Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Braden, Vic

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Bible

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Young, Eva

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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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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