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Brainy Quotes
The most loved quotes on brainy, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
We do not judge the people we love.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
He who defends everything defends nothing.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Never mistake motion for action.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Well begun is half done.
I do not seek. I find.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
United we stand, divided we fall.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
What worries you, masters you.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
We are what we believe we are.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
If youth knew; if age could.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
To be is to do.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.