Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Quarles, Francis

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Bourget, Paul

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fredrich

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

Twain, Mark

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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.