Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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 person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Think then act safely.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.