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Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

- Holzer, Jenny

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Buddha

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Eva

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

Frost, Robert

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Steere, Bishop

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Patton, George S.

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Voltaire

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Horton, Doug

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

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William