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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

Voltaire

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fredrich

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

Allen, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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