Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

Think then act safely.

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

Fredrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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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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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Young, Eva

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Braden, Vic

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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