Thinking Quotes - Page 13

• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Stress, Ignorance

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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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Views, Goes On

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Work, Stress

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• Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

  Robert Frost

  Voting, Icy

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• I think; therefore I am.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Atheist, Humorous

  Rene Descartes (2013). “Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Shadow, Half, World

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 169), 1997.

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• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Education, Clever

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• The more you think, the more time you have.

  Henry Ford

  Time, Work, Creativity

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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Faith, Believe, Atheism

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Insanity

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

  Mariah Carey

  Heartbreak, Thinking Of You, Solitude

  Song: My All Stay A While, Album: Butterfly, 1997

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• We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Names, Two

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• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Moon, People

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• If you think you can do it, you can.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Sports, Famous Motivational

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• We cannot really think in one way and act in another.

  Thomas Troward

  Way, Conflict, One Way

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

  Meher Baba

  Pride, Harm

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

  Byron Katie

  Fighting, Mind, Shame

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011

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• Memories are the best things in life, I think.

  Romy Schneider

  Memories, Things In Life, Best Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can do it if you believe you can.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.44, Penguin

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• Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Positive, Success, Fall

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• A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.13, New Line Publishing

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• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Way, Ancient, Walden Pond

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Government, Make You Think

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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