Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Confucius

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buddha

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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 your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, 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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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