Noble thoughts sayings

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◆ Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make is what the people call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

- Alexander Hamiltonr99

◆ The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.

- James Beattie99

◆ What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes99

◆ We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

- Joseph Fort Newton99

◆ All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ The less men think, the more they talk.

- Baron Montesquieu99

◆ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

- Confucius99

◆ The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

- Sir Aubrey De Vere99

◆ Thoughts rule the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

- Plato99

◆ Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

- Mme. du Deffand99