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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Barzan, George

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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Think then act safely.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.