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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Eva

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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