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

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" 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. "

" In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. "

" Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. "

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

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

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" The mind cannot foresee its own advance. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" There is no influence like the influence of habit. "

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

" 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.' "

Woody Harrelson

" He who defends everything defends nothing. "

Frederick the Great

" It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. "

Albert Einstein

" Fortune favors the audacious. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" 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. "

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

Johann Georg Hamann

" Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Good order is the foundation of all things. "

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

John Galsworthy

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

" 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. "

" We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. "

John Henry Newman

" Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

" At times I think and at times I am. "

" People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. "

" The real business of life is trying to understand each other. "

" Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. "

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