Brainy Quotes
1. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
2. A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
3. The destiny of man is in his own soul.
- Herodotus
4. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
- Khalil Gibran
5. What we do belongs to what we are' and what we are is what becomes of us.
- Henry Van Dyke
6. We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
7. Memory is more indelible than ink.
- Anita Loos
8. There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
9. The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
- Pierre Bonnard
10. All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
- Juvenal
11. We see things as we are, not as they are.
- Leo Rosten
12. Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
- Francis Herbert Hedge
13. The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
- Johann Georg Hamann
14. Ideals are the world's masters.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
15. Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
- Robert W. Service
16. Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
- Maxwell Maltz
17. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- Lewis Mumford
18. People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
19. Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Viktor E. Frankl
20. All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
- Sai Baba
21. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
22. Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
- Richard Wright
23. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
24. The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
25. We are what we believe we are.
- C. S. Lewis
26. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
27. Our first intuitions are the true ones.
- Emile M. Cioran
28. Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
- Rose Kennedy
29. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
30. You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
- Samantha Fox
31. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- Pablo Picasso
32. You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne
33. Fortune favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
34. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
- Thomas Browne
35. Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman
36. Unless we remember we cannot understand.
- E. M. Forster
37. Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
- George Henry Lewes
38. I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
- Juvenal
39. Talent works, genius creates.
- Robert Schumann
40. It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
- T. S. Eliot
41. Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
42. You create your own reality.
- Jane Roberts
43. Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
- Babe Ruth
44. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Unknown
45. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
46. To be is to be the value of a variable.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
47. We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
48. Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Viktor E. Frankl
49. Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
- Francis Herbert Hedge
50. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
51. I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
- Confucius
52. Talent works, genius creates.
- Robert Schumann
53. Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
- George Henry Lewes
54. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
- William Feather
55. The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
56. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
- Oswald Chambers
57. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
58. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
59. We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver
61. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
62. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
63. Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie
64. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
65. Fortune favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
66. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
67. A brainy person does not abuse copyright' instead they respect it and uphold it.
- Maximillian Degenerez
68. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- Pablo Picasso
69. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
70. If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
- Erich Fromm
71. I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
72. What we do belongs to what we are' and what we are is what becomes of us.
- Henry Van Dyke
73. The destiny of man is in his own soul.
- Herodotus
74. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
75. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
76. The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
77. We see things as we are, not as they are.
- Leo Rosten
78. Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
- Bodhidharma
79. You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
80. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Horace
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