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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Chapman, John Jay

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Eva

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Barzan, George

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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