Brainy Quote by Thomas Huxley Download Open image “Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” — Thomas Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brainy Cleverness More Patience Patience Tenacity Resilience Tenacity Tenacity Worth Weight Worth
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that patience which,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Date a girl who reads!!, brainy is the new sexy!, bigger books are better than bigger boobs!…oh shut the fuck up…date a person who… — REAM Copy Share Image
'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… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image