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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Einstein, Albert

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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

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Braden, Vic

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Think then act safely.

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barzan, George

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Confucius

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva