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Thoughts and thinking

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

- Brookner, Anita

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

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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 we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Chapman, John Jay

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Madwed, Sidney

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Po, Huang

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Kettering, Charles F.