Thoughts and Thinking Quotes
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.Thoughts and Thinking
Adams, Bryan
1959 Canadian-born American Musician Singer Songwriter
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
1799-1888 American Educator Social Reformer
A man is literally what he thinks
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
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.
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
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Anderson, Hans Christian
1805-1875 Danish Children Stories Writer
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.
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Aron, Elaine N.
American Psychologist Novelist
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
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Arrington, Eva
Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
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Ashvaghosha
A man s life is what his thoughts make of it.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
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.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Baruch, Bernard M.
1870-1965 American Financier
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
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Barzan, George
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
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Baudjuin
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.
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Baudrillard, Jean
French Postmodern Philosopher Writer
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.
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Bentham, Jeremy
1748-1832 British Philosopher Jurist Political Theorist
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.
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Bernanos, Georges
1888-1948 French Novelist Political Writer
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]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
One thought fills immensity.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Bohr, Niels
1885-1962 Danish Physicist
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
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Bourget, Paul
1852-1935 French Novelist
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men s thoughts.
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Bovee, Christian Nevell
1820-1904 American Author Lawyer
Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
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Braden, Vic
American Tennis Coach
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
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Bristol, Claude M.
1891-1951 American Author of The Magic of Believing
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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Brookner, Anita
1938 British Novelist Art Historian
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.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
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Butterworth, Eric
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
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Chapman, John Jay
1862-1933 American Author
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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Chapman, John Jay
1862-1933 American Author
Man is what he believes.
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Chekhov, Anton
1860-1904 Russian Playwright Short Story Writer
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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Chopra, Deepak
East-Indian- American MD New Age Author Lecturer
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
I thought so hard I got a headache.
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Cobb, J.D.
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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Cousins, Norman
1915-1990 American Editor Humanitarian Author
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.
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Da Vinci, Leonardo
1452-1519 Italian Inventor Architect Painter Scientist Sculptor
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Descartes, Rene
1596-1650 French Philosopher Scientist
I think therefore I am.
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Descartes, Rene
1596-1650 French Philosopher Scientist
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
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Dewey, John
1859-1952 American Philosopher Educator
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
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Dinsah, H.Jay
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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Duranty, Walter
I think and that is all that I am.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
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.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
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.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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Ellis, Havelock
1859-1939 British Psychologist
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.
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Emerick, John J.
American NLP Trainer
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul s emphasis is always right.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Thought makes every thing fit for use.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
To think is to act.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A man s what he thinks about all day long
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
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Faber, Frederick W.
1814-1863 British Priest Hymn Writer
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.
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Farrar, Frederick
1831-1903 British Clergyman Author
Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
1896-1940 American Writer
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it s unfamiliar territory.
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Fix, Paul
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.
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Fleischer, Lenore
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier
1657-1757 Scientist Man of Letter
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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Forbes, Malcolm S.
1919-1990 American Publisher Businessman
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Forster, Edward M.
1879-1970 British Novelist Essayist
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Fredrich
What was once thought can never be unthought.
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Friedrich, Carl J.
1901-1984 German-born Professor State Advisor
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
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.
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Frye, Northrop
1912-1991 Canadian Literary Critic
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.
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Gardner, George
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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Gasset, Jose Ortega Y
1883-1955 Spanish Essayist Philosopher
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Golding, William
1911-1993 British Author
Those that think must govern those that toil.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974 American Film Producer Founder MGM
Thought would destroy their paradise.
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Gray, Thomas
1716-1771 British Poet
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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Halifax, Edward F.
1881-1959 British Conservative Statesman
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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Hall, Robert
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
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Hare, David
1947 British Playwright Director
How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
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Harris, Franco
Every thought we think is creating our future.
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Hay, Louise L.
American Metaphysical Teacher Lecturer Author
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
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Henri, Robert
1865-1929 American Realist Painter
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Carve every word before you let it fall.
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Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell
1841-1935 American Judge
Little-minded people s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
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Holzer, Jenny
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
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Horton, Doug
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
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Horton, Doug
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
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Horton, Doug
Life is good when we think it s good. Life is bad when we don t think.
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Horton, Doug
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
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Horton, Doug
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Hume, David
1711-1776 Scottish Philosopher Historian
Most of one s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
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Huxley, Julian S.
1877-1975 British Writer Biologist
Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
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James, Henry
1843-1916 American Author
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Johnson
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.
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Kant, Immanuel
1724-1804 German Philosopher
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.
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Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can t think, we can say it anyhow.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Landor, Walter Savage
1775-1864 British Poet Essayist
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.
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Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De
1846-1870 French Author Poet
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don t bite everybody.
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Lec, Stanislaw J.
1909 Polish Writer
As you think, so shall you become.
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Lee, Bruce
1940-1973 Chinese-American Actor Director Author Martial Artist
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
When I m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
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.
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Lorayne, Harry
American Memory Expert Author Lecturer
The average person thinks he isn t.
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Lorenzoni, Larry
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
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Luce, Clare Boothe
1903-1987 American Diplomat Writer
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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Mackay, Charles
1814-1889 Scottish Poet Song Writer
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.
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Madwed, Sidney
American Speaker Consultant Author Poet
Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
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Madwed, Sidney
American Speaker Consultant Author Poet
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Maharshi, Ramana
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.
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Maharshi, Ramana
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!
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Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
If you make people think they re thinking they ll love you: but if you really make them think, they ll hate you.
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Marquis, Don
1878-1937 American Humorist Journalist
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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Martin, Steve
1945 American Actor Comedian Screenwriter Playwright Writer
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
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Masson, Thomas L.
It s only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
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May, Louise
I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
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Mizner, Wilson
1876-1933 American Author
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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Montale, Eugenio
1896-1981 Italian Poet
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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Murphy, Joseph Edward
1919 American Surgeon
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Nathan, George Jean
1882-1958 American Critic
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Newton, Sir Isaac
1642-1727 British Scientist Mathematician
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.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
What s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
You become what you think about.
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Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Paine, Thomas
1737-1809 Anglo-American Political Theorist Writer
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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Paine, Thomas
1737-1809 Anglo-American Political Theorist Writer
Thinking is heavily endorsed.
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Pancoast, Mal
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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Parkhurst, Charles H.
1842-1933 American Clergyman Reformer
Man s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
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.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn t thinking.
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Patton, George S.
1885-1945 American Army General during World War II
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.
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Paz, Octavio
1914 Mexican Poet Essayist
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
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.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
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Po, Huang
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Poe, Edgar Allan
1809-1845 American Poet Critic short-story Writer
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
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Proverb, Italian
Sayings of Italian Origin
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
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Quarles, Francis
1592-1644 British Poet
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.
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Rico, Gabriele Lusser
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
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Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
We find it hard to believe that other people s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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Robinson, James H.
American Businessman Chairman of American Express
To reflect is to disturb one s thoughts.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Rushdie, Salman
1948 Indian-born British Author
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.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
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.
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Satta, Salvatore
1902-1975 Italian Jurist Novelist
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
Think success, don t think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I ll win, not I ll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I m equal to the best, not I m out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can t. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.
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Schwartz, David J.
American Trainer Author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
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Secker, Thomas
Make not your thoughts you prisons.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Thought is free.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
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.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can t.
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Sikes, Rex Steven
Trainer Peak Performance Expert
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
1904-1990 American Psychologist
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.
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Steere, Bishop
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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Stevens, Wallace
1879-1955 American Poet
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
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Sutra, Diamond
A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.
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Taylor, Isaac
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
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Taylor, Susan
Editor-In-Chief Essence Magazine
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
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Teasdale, Sara
1884-1933 American Poet
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred
1809-1892 British Poet
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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Thales of Miletus
640-546 BC Semitic Founder of Greek Philosophy Sciences
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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Tolstoy, Count Leo
1828-1910 Russian Novelist Philosopher
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
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Trine, Ralph Waldo
American Author
Thoughts are forces.
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Trine, Ralph Waldo
American Author
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Thought is made in the mouth.
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Tzara, Tristan
1896-1963 Rumanian-born French Dadaist
When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.
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Unknown, Source
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
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Unknown, Source
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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Unknown, Source
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
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Unknown, Source
Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.
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