Top 217 Brainy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
Explore popular Brainy quotes.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
He who defends everything defends nothing.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
You exist only in what you do.
Well begun is half done.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
All serious daring starts from within.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
To be is to do.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
You create your own reality.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Never mistake motion for action.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
