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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Barzan, George

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Voltaire

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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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Chapman, John Jay