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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Frost, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Braden, Vic

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

Fredrich

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.