Brainy Quotes

Sharp, thoughtful one-liners to make you think.

These quotes favor sharp, reflective thinking over fixed opinions, arguing personal qualities endure while passing viewpoints fade like the seasons. A few carry the quiet confidence of real Genius, judging people by their questions rather than their answers.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Quotes by Aesop

United we stand, divided we fall.

Quotes by Aesop

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Quotes by A. A. Milne

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Quotes by Zhuangzi

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Quotes by Yogi Berra

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Quotes by William Law

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Quotes by William Feather

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Voltaire

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

Quotes by Virginia Satir

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

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

Quotes by Unknown

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

Quotes by Tony Robbins

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Quotes by Thomas Reid

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

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