Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Paine, Thomas

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Robbins, Anthony

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Young, Eva

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.