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Thoughts and thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

- Rostand, Jean

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Confucius

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, 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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Barzan, George

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

Madwed, Sidney