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Thoughts and thinking

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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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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Stevens, Wallace

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hugo, Victor

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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.