Brainy Quotes
194 quotes by 169 authors
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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…
— Thomas Sowell
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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…
— Thomas Sowell
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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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
— Paul Tournier
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
— Voltaire
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We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
— Ethel Waters
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
— Walt Whitman
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
— Bernard Williams
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
— Dr. Seuss
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Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?†James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.†Snape…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
— David Foster Wallace
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Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't…
— Dr. Seuss
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Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.
— Richelle Mead
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
— Carl Sagan
Who Wrote These Brainy Quotes
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