Thought Quotes

Hi All,

Here are 37 “thought quotes” to get you thinking.  Share your thoughts afterwards, please.

1. A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes. -Mahatma Gandhi

2. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -Oscar Wilde

3. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas S. Szasz

4. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Albert Einstein

5. It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespeare

6. Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -Benjamin Lee Whorf

7. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make more sense. -Harold Kushner

8. At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all. -Anonymous

9. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you are right. -May Kay Ash

10. Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James

11. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. -Benjamin Disraeli

12. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. -Fortune Cookie

13. The ‘how’ thinker get problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs’. -Norman Vincent Peale

14. Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. -Fortune Cookie

15. Those who know how to think need no teachers. -Mahatma Gandhi

16. Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads onto actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. -Tyron Edwards

17. Thought is the blossom; language is the bud; action the fruit behind it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. Watch you thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. -Frank Outlaw

19. What we think, we become. -Buddha

20. The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of goodwill. -J. Arthur Thomson

21. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -Colin Wilson

22. A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -Alexander Cannon

23. A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. -Meher Baba

24. Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all these little things and are not hurt. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

25. The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn’t stop until you get up to deliver a speech. -Sir George Jessel (1824-1883)

26. If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean? -Unknown

27. The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. -Anthony Robbins

28. What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up. -Unknown

29. Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. -Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

30. As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. -Leonardo Da Vinci

31. The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled. -Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

32. We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered. -Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

33. The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

34. It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

35. I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer. -Dr. Jean Hanson

36. Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. -Thomas Robert Dewar

37. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. -Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

There you have it.  What did you think?

Please share your thoughts below in the comments section.  And please share some “thought quotes” of your own.