Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

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

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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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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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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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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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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

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Think then act safely.

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.