Brainy Quotes

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

"When one teaches, two learn."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."

"None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see."

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."