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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

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 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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Po, Huang

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Barzan, George

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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.