Top 217 Brainy Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
What worries you, masters you.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Brainy's the new sexy.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Ideals are the world's masters.
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
