Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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 and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Horton, Doug

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bourget, Paul

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Fredrich

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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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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arrington, Eva

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

May, Louise

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