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Thoughts and thinking

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

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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

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Confucius

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

Barzan, George

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

Patton, George S.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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.