Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Robbins, Anthony

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paine, Thomas

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Barzan, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Young, Eva

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

May, Louise

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson