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Thoughts and thinking

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

- Sutra, Diamond

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Proverb, Italian

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barzan, George

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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