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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Allen, James

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horton, Doug

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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

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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Think then act safely.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Braden, Vic