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Thoughts and thinking

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.