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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Butler, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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.

Think then act safely.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Duranty, Walter

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Confucius

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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 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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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