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
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 Goethe
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-Tung
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 Hamiltonr
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
Holmes
