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Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Voltaire

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Allen, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bourget, Paul

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug