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Thoughts and thinking

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Young, Eva

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Po, Huang

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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