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Thoughts and thinking

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

- Fredrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

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

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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

Horton, Doug

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Patton, George S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, 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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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