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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Proverb, Italian

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Think then act safely.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Barzan, George

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Madwed, Sidney

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo