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Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

- Dyer, Wayne

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bourget, Paul

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Think then act safely.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha