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Thoughts and thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

- Rostand, Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Young, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny