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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

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

Fredrich

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Po, Huang

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Bourget, Paul

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Barzan, George

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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