Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

May, Louise

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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 is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dryden, John

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Chapman, John Jay

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Bible

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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 reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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