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Thoughts and thinking

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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Think then act safely.

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fredrich

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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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.

Eliot, George

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny