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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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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.

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

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barzan, George

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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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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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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 pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Think then act safely.

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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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Hugo, Victor

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas