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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Montale, Eugenio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think then act safely.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Young, Eva

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montale, Eugenio

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Barzan, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Po, Huang

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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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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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

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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