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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Stevens, Wallace

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Arrington, Eva

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Forster, Edward M.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Think then act safely.

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steere, Bishop

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David