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Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

- Johnson

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Butler, Samuel

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Barzan, George

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Young, Eva

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Voltaire