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Thoughts and thinking

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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Allen, James

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, 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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha