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Thoughts and thinking

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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.

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

Braden, Vic

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

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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