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Thoughts and thinking

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Frost, Robert

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Po, Huang

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Butterworth, Eric

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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

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

Braden, Vic

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

Barzan, George

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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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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

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

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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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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier