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Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Brookner, Anita

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry 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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Barzan, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Braden, Vic

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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

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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