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Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

- Johnson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Halifax, Edward F.

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Martin, Steve

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Braden, Vic

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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