Quotes about Brainy

“Well begun is half done.”

“To be is to be the value of a variable.”

“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“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.”

“The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”

“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.”

“You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”

“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”

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

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

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

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

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

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

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

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

“If youth knew; if age could.”

“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”