A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
At times I think and at times I am.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
When one teaches, two learn.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Talent works, genius creates.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
If youth knew; if age could.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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 as it might seem.
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 the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.