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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Vivekananda, Swami

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Patton, George S.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barzan, George

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

Quarles, Francis

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Po, Huang

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond