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Thoughts and thinking

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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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

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Horton, Doug

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Think then act safely.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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