“ With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. ”
- Matt Damon- Copy
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“ For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me. ”
- Eva Braun- Copy
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“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's. ”
- Martin H. Fisher- Copy
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“ God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ”
- Farrah Fawcett- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ”
- Theodor Reik- Copy
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“ Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ”
- Mary Pettibone Poole- Copy
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“ Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ”
- Nietzsche- Copy
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“ I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ”
- Martin Mull- Copy
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“ I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. ”
- James Agate- Copy
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“ To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
- 2K
“ Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups. ”
- Peter Davies- Copy
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