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Thoughts and thinking

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Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Secker, Thomas

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Po, Huang

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Patton, George S.

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

Frost, Robert

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Young, Eva

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Barzan, George

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

Chapman, John Jay

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo