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Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

- Huxley, Julian S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Duranty, Walter

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Young, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Think then act safely.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Patton, George S.

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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.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George 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