Brainy Quotes (163 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Frank Lloyd Wright
„There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.“
Picture of quotation author John Wooden
„Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.“
― John Wooden ―
Picture of quotation author Bernard Williams
„Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.“
Picture of quotation author Walt Whitman
„Nothing endures but personal qualities.“
― Walt Whitman ―
Picture of quotation author Eudora Welty
„All serious daring starts from within.“
― Eudora Welty ―
Picture of quotation author Ethel Waters
„We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.“
― Ethel Waters ―
Picture of quotation author Voltaire
„Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.“
― Voltaire ―
Picture of quotation author Voltaire
„Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.“
― Voltaire ―
Picture of quotation author Leonardo da Vinci
„There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.“
Picture of quotation author Paul Valery
„At times I think and at times I am.“
― Paul Valery ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Twain
„It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.“
― Mark Twain ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Tournier
„The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.“
― Paul Tournier ―
Picture of quotation author Henry David Thoreau
„As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.“
Picture of quotation author Sara Teasdale
„Life is but thought.“
― Sara Teasdale ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Spock
„You know more than you think you do.“
― Benjamin Spock ―
Picture of quotation author Thomas Sowell
„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.“
― Thomas Sowell ―
Picture of quotation author Thomas Sowell
„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.“
― Thomas Sowell ―
Picture of quotation author Isaac Bashevis Singer
„Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.“
Picture of quotation author Charles Simmons
„True greatness consists in being great in little things.“
― Charles Simmons ―
Picture of quotation author Robert W. Service
„Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.“

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