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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Patton, George S.

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

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Einstein, Albert

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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 makes every thing fit for use.