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Thoughtful Quotations It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky i s only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Tse-Tung

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lipman Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I h ave a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I e xplore 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 la bor and thought. Alexander Hamiltonr The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to thi nk. James Beattie What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are i n the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. Oliver Wendell Holmes We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. William Shakespeare All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to ma ke them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The less men think, the more they talk. Baron Montesquieu Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius 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 Vere

Thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few p eople engage in it. Henry Ford The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. Charles W. Eliot Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. Humphrey B. Neil Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. R. C. Trench

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