Top 31 Brainy Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 31 of the best brainy quotes ever written, picked out of the full brainy archive on QuoteForever. You will find Dag Hammarskjold, Desiderius Erasmus, E. M. Forster and Ethel Waters among them.

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1

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

2

Fortune favors the audacious.

3

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

4

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

5

You exist only in what you do.

6

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

7

What worries you, masters you.

8

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

9

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

10

I do not seek. I find.

11

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

12

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

13

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.

14

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

15

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

16

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

17

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

18

He who defends everything defends nothing.

19

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

20

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

21

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

22

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

23

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

24

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

25

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

26

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

27

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

28

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

29

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

30

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

31

When one teaches, two learn.

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