Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

- Satta, Salvatore

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Young, Eva

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

May, Louise

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

Braden, Vic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Cousins, Norman

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William