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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

Confucius

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Frost, Robert

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Barzan, George

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean