Top 217 Brainy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The time is always right to do what is right.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

We do not judge the people we love.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

If youth knew; if age could.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.