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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Paine, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Confucius

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

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cousins, Norman

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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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

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous