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Thoughts and thinking

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Confucius

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.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

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 is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Braden, Vic

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Russell, Bertrand