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Thoughts and thinking

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Secker, Thomas

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Confucius

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barzan, George

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Think then act safely.

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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