Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Voltaire

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

Brookner, Anita

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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

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

Fredrich

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

Barzan, George

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .