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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Confucius

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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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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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