Noble quotes

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◆ You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe100

◆ Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ The less men think, the more they talk.

- Charles De Montesquieu99

◆ It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

- Michel De Montaigne99

◆ The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

- Charles William Eliot99

◆ Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

- Taylor Caldwell99

◆ An honest man is the noblest work of God.

- Alexander Pope99

◆ We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

- Aristotle99

◆ Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

- Walter Lippmann99

◆ We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

- Mao Tse-Tung99

◆ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

- Henry Ford99

◆ 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 thoughts of other men.

- Bill Beattie99

◆ We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

- Aristotle99

◆ Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings admiration or pity.

- Anatole France99