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Thoughts and thinking

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

- Mizner, Wilson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Proverb, Italian

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Young, Eva

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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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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 is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Voltaire

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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 think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Think then act safely.

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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 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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver