Best Brainy Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

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

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”

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

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“We are what we believe we are.”

“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

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

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“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.”

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

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

“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

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

“United we stand, divided we fall.”

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

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

“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

“You create your own reality.”

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”

“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”

“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”

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

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

“We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.”

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

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

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

“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”

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

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.”

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

“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”

“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”

“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”

“The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“We do not judge the people we love.”

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”

“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.”

“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”

“The destiny of man is in his own soul.”

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

“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”

“Genius is never understood in its own time.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

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

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”

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

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

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

“When one teaches, two learn.”

“Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.”

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“True greatness consists in being great in little things.”

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

“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”

“People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.”

“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.”

“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”

“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”

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

“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”

“I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

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

“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.”

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

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

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

“Good order is the foundation of all things.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”

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