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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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Taylor, Susan

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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Think then act safely.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.