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Thoughts and thinking

What was once thought can never be unthought.

- Friedrich, Carl J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Confucius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Allen, James

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Fredrich

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Frost, Robert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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