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

Quarles, Francis

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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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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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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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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 takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Fredrich

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Barzan, George

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

Chapman, John Jay

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.