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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fredrich

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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