Quotes about Brainy

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

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

“There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.”

“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”

“Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

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

“You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.”

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

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

“If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.”

“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”

“The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.”

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

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

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

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

“If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.”

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

“Life is but thought.”

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