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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Confucius

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Confucius

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.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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

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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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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

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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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 life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.