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Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

- Blake, William

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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

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Barzan, George

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Think then act safely.

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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.

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver