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Thoughts and thinking

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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Barzan, George

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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Patton, George S.

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think then act safely.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha