Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Confucius

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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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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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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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