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Thoughts and thinking

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Voltaire

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.