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Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Think then act safely.

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.