Brainy Quotes
“Much muscle, little mind, makes you strong but terribly blind” – Daren Martin
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla
“I rarely see intelligence used intelligently.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“There are no limits in the universe of imagination.” – Steven Magee
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Accept responsibility for yourself and your actions, thoughts and words. You alone make choices. You alone are answerable to the consequences of your behaviour. The feeble excuse that your boss required it, the establishment expected it, holds no truth or justification.
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.”
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
“Keep your mind ever on the Stars, but let your eyes watch over your footsteps, lest you fall into the mire by reason of your upward gaze.”
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
“Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.”
“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens”
“You create your own personal experience of reality through your beliefs, expectations, attitudes, desires, fears, judgements, feelings, and consistent or persistent thoughts and actions.”
“Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
“Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“There are no justified resentments.”
“Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.”
“Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of ass” ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“None of us is as smart as all of us”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“As a blazing fire turns firewood into ashes, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” ( 850 Brainy Quotes )
“Failure is not falling down, but staying down. Get up. Act!” ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“Worry is spiritual near-sightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things and magnifying their value.”
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.” ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
“Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” ( 900 Brainy Quotes )
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ( 900 Brainy Quotes )
“Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper”
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” ( 900 Brainy Quotes )
“Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.”
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
“Fate does not always call upon us at the time of our own choosing.” ( 900 Brainy Quotes )
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection”
“Luck is: labouring under correct knowledge”
“By the yard its hard, but inch by inch it’s a cinch.”
“Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying that you don’t have time to stop for gas because you are too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.”
“Don’t compromise yourself; you are all you’ve got.”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but do it better, do it harder, do it faster, and do it sooner.”
“Civilisation, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment.”
“Hold your own, know your name, go your own way.”
“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who may be better employed.”
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“To thine own self be true”
“I have many unrecognised talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.”
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“To know that you do not know is best.”
“It’s far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“No credit can be given for predicting rain – only for building arks.”
“Some men are born with greatness, some men achieve greatness, and some men have greatness thrust upon them.”
“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”
“Courage is the capacity to go from failure to failure with increased enthusiasm!”
“The truth is merely a matter of fact whereas honesty is a question of attitude.”
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.”
“The energy and anxiety that you invest in putting off an activity can consume more energy than is required to perform the activity.”
“Problems are those things we see when we take our eyes off the goal.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
“Life is an attitude. It’s what you choose to believe, always.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“A rat, even if he gets out of the rat race, is still a rat”
“A fool with a tool is still a fool”
“Nothing is true, but that which is simple.”
“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees” ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“Too many people buy things they don’t even need, with money they don’t even have, to impress people they don’t even like.”
“Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.” – George Orwell ( 800 Brainy Quotes )
“All the hopes of intellectuals always remain just hopes.” – Abhishek Verma
“A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual” – Sunday Adelaja
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” – Steve Wozniak
“It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.” – Katherine Paterson
“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.” – M.T. Dismuke
“With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.” – Damon Thueson
“Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“It is better to have a clear cut enemy who hates you sincerely than a supposed loved one hates you but pretends to love you.” – Nurudeen Ushawu
“The Absolute is unknowable exactly because it’s beyond knowing, or beyond the reach of the consciousness itself. Those that have attained such a state of awareness report that it can’t be described and can have no meaning for anyone without experience of that context. Nonetheless, this is the true state of Reality, universally and eternally – we merely fail to recognise it. Such a recognition is the essence of enlightenment and the final resolution of the evolution of consciousness, to the point of self-transcendence.”
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
“Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.”
“Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.”
“You are lucky to have hornets, because if you have hornets then you will not be troubled by wasps.”