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Thoughts and thinking

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- Nathan, George Jean

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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

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.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Confucius

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Frost, Robert

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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