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Thoughts and thinking

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barzan, George

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.