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Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

- Tzara, Tristan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Braden, Vic

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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.

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Einstein, Albert