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Thoughts and thinking

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Patton, George S.

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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 is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Confucius

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Braden, Vic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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