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Thoughts and thinking

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fredrich

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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