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Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

- Pancoast, Mal

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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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Confucius

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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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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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David