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Thoughts and thinking

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Eva

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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 thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Po, Huang

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Fredrich

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo