Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

- Huxley, Aldous

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fredrich

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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

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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 is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Confucius

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Buddha