Brainy Quotes

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

When you're brainy in school it's a lot harder to fit in.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Never mistake motion for action.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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

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

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

What worries you, masters you.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

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.

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.

At times I think and at times I am.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.

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.

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.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Ideals are the world's masters.

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.

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

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

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

'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.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Brainy's the new sexy.