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Thoughts and thinking

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

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Po, Huang

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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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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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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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

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver