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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

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Kempis, Thomas

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bourget, Paul

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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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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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Fredrich

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Think then act safely.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.