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Thoughts and thinking

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Russell, Bertrand

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Allen, James

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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 America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fredrich

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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