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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

May, Louise

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Barzan, George

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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]

Bible

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Secker, Thomas

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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