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

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Stevens, Wallace

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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