Quotes about thoughts and thinking

"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."

Carlyle, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

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

Chapman, John Jay on thoughts and thinking   

"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."

Chapman, John Jay on thoughts and thinking   

"Man is what he believes."

Chekhov, Anton on thoughts and thinking   

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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"To think is to practice brain chemistry."

Chopra, Deepak on thoughts and thinking   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on thoughts and thinking   

"I thought so hard I got a headache."

Cobb, J.D. on 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 on thoughts and thinking   

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

Confucius on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking   

"I think therefore I am."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

Dewey, John on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on thoughts and thinking
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"Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much."

Dryden, John on thoughts and thinking
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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 on thoughts and thinking   

"I think and that is all that I am."

Dyer, Wayne on thoughts and thinking   

"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 on thoughts and thinking
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"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

Edison, Thomas A. on thoughts and thinking
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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. on thoughts and thinking
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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

Einstein, Albert on thoughts and thinking
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"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."

Eliot, George on 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 on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

Ellis, Havelock on thoughts and thinking   

"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. on thoughts and thinking
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"What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought makes every thing fit for use."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"To think is to act."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"A man's what he thinks about all day long"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking