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Thoughts and thinking

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

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Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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.

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

17.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

18.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

19.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

20.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

21.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

22.

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

23.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

24.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

27.

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

Butterworth, Eric

28.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

33.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

34.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

35.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

41.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Secker, Thomas

44.

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

45.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Byron, Lord

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.