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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

May, Louise

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Confucius

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, 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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore