Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: brainy

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

What worries you, masters you.

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

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

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

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

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 and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

Ideals are the world's masters.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

'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 want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

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 pains some people more than having to think.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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