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Thoughts and thinking

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

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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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo