Brainy Quotes
194 quotes by 170 authors
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
— William Hazlitt
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
— Martin Heidegger
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
— Napoleon Hill
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
— Elbert Hubbard
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
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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…
— Josh Hutcherson
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put…
— Thomas Huxley
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
— Thomas Huxley
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Thomas Jefferson
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
— Franz Kafka
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
— Helen Keller
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
— Rose Kennedy
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
— Charles Kettering
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The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
— William Law
Who Wrote These Brainy Quotes
170 authors contributed a total of 194 Brainy Quotes, led by these top contributors: