Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Po, Huang

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butterworth, Eric

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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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

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

May, Louise

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Confucius

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

Barzan, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Paine, Thomas

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise