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Thoughts and thinking

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

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

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Eva

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Think then act safely.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Confucius

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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