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Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

- Hare, David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Allen, James

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

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

Fredrich

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

Patton, George S.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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]

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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 is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Arrington, Eva

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.