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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Horton, Doug

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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Think then act safely.

33.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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 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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne