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Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Byron, Lord

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Barzan, George

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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 is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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 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 is only a process of talking to yourself.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel