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Thoughts and thinking

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

- Eliot, George

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Huxley, Aldous

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

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

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

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Patton, George S.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fredrich

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Buddha

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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