Thought Quotes

Here are 20 “thought quotes” to get you thinking.

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

There you have it. What did you think?

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