Motivational Quotes

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Paine, Thomas

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Think then act safely.

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

Young, Eva

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

May, Louise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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