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Thoughts and thinking

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

Think then act safely.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Frost, Robert

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

Stevens, Wallace

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel