Brainy Quotations

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

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

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

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

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

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.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

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

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''