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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
Wisdom
Time
Experience
Brainy
Every
Over
Form
Exploration
Found
Gathered
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.
Thomas Huxley
Man
Brainy
Rest
Long
Ladder
Other
Enough
Rung
Only
Somewhat
Higher
Foot
Never
Put
Him
Enable
Hold
Meant
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
Life
Brainy
Starts
Daring
Well
Within
Sheltered
Serious
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
Brainy
Seen
Others
Could
Asked
Why
Why Not
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
Eve Arnold
You
Brainy
Walls
Mind
Hang
Your
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Virginia Satir
Brainy
Believe
Something
Something New
New
Learn
Anytime
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley
Patience
Worth
Brainy
More
Tenacity
Weight
Cleverness
Than
Twice
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell
You
Integrity
Brainy
Will
Never
Deceive
May
Subtlety
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Thoughts
Brainy
Clarity
Profound
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Fight
Brainy
Live
Easier
Principles
Up
Than
Them
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Robert W. Service
You
Words
Brainy
Say
Those
Wisest
Sure
Your
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brainy
Looking
Thinking
More
Knowing
Than
Interesting
Less
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.
Deepak Chopra
Reality
World
Brainy
Nervous
Perception
Single
Numerous
Our
Ways
System
Physical
Nervous System
Environment
Existence
Dictated
Fixed
Just
Planetary
Views
Specific
Interpreting
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Jean Giraudoux
Man
Heart
Brainy
Diverse
Joined
Cannot
Elements
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard
Brainy
Seeing
Takes
Naming
Precision
Uniqueness
Away
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
Karl Pilkington
Day
Me
World
Cause
Brainy
End Of The Day
Way
About
Never
Mess
Make
End
Trying
Going
Just
Happen
Einstein
Gonna
Teachers
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
Maximillian Degenerez
Education
Class
Brainy
Made
Think
Tend
Individuals
Beyond
Learners
Continuous
Self-Taught
Up
Formal
Formal Education
Themselves
Who
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.
Thomas Sowell
War
Brainy
Brilliant
Defense
Lyndon
Secretary
Kids
Administration
Tried
Pentagon
Folks
Johnson
Results
Disastrous
Robert
Also
Were
Where
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Whiz
Present
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.
Thomas Sowell
People
Brainy
President
Conservatives
Some
Seem
Adviser
How
Been
His
Impressed
Very
Quite
Might
Many
Reassuring
Including
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Speak
Brainy
Write
Read
Understood
Heard
Grow
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
Good
Brainy
Nothing
Seems
Beforehand
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Discipline
Brainy
Submit
One Thing
Another
Praise
Thing
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal
Brainy
Will
Wish
Take
Command
Place
Reason
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.
Ivan Turgenev
Love
Character
People
Fate
Brainy
Will
Responsibility
Own
Having
Taking
Firmness
Make
Make Up
Without
Up
Them
Themselves
Necessity
To be is to be the value of a variable.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Brainy
Value
Variable
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.
Evan Davis
Knowledge
You
People
Losing
Brainy
Think
Other
Top
City
London
Lawyers
Winning
Tend
New
Like
Industries
Cambridge
Up
Same
So-Called
Want
Regions
Cluster
Hollywood
Hollywood People
Workers
Means
Who
Near
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