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Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frost, Robert

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fredrich

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Buddha

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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

Taylor, Susan

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Quarles, Francis