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Thoughts and thinking

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- Nathan, George Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Vivekananda, Swami

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Think then act safely.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Paine, Thomas

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Stevens, Wallace