157 Best Brainy Quotes (That You Can Use to Look Smart)

Check our ultimate collection of the best brainy quotes of all time. We have divided these brainy quotes into several categories (you can jump directly into your favorite):

Clever Brainy Quotes

1. Sometimes the most clever thing to say is nothing at all.
2. Sell a man a fish, he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish, you’ll be out of a job…
3. Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
4. They say never judge a book by its cover but they also said a picture is worth a thousand words.
5. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it
6. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
7. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
8. Never point your finger at someone, you will always have three fingers pointing back at you.
9. Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
10. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
11. A clever man is one who never shows his cleverness to others.
12. He who waits to take the first step will spend his entire life on one foot.
13. Build a man a fire, he’s warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
14. After one realizes he’s been a fool, he’s not a fool anymore.
15. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
16. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
17. A person who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes..but a person who doesn’t is a fool forever.
18. Problem-free life never makes a strong person.
19. Whether you’re first or last in the queue depends which way you’re looking
20. You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.
21. It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
22. You do not have to prove something for it to be true. However, you do have to prove something for others to believe it to be true.
23. Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
24. A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
25. Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce “it” to its 

Brainy Quotes about Life

Collection of the best brainy quotes about life:

1. If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher.
2. You gotta take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you got, and remember what you had.
3. You’ll never be old and wise if you weren’t young and crazy. :]]
4. The day you realize you’re not as young as you used to be is the day you start dying.
5. When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and have the world wondering how the hell you did it. 🙂
6. You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.
7. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
8. Life has its ups and downs, use the ups to overcome the downs!
9. Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why the earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
10. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
11. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
12. When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye!!!!!
13. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
14. An eye for an eye will ultimately, leave the whole world blind.
15. There are more stars in the sky then there are grains of sand on Earth.
16. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Motivational Brainy Quotes

1. The man that says he can’t and the man that says he can are both right!!
2. Never be afraid to try something new… An amateur built the ark that lasted forty days and forty nights; professionals built the titanic that sank.
3. If at first, you don’t succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
4. Not being able to recognize our lifelong dreams is like not being able to recognize that we are alive.
5. I haven’t failed at anything, I’ve just found all the wrong ways of doing it!!
6. What would you attempt to do
   If you knew you could not fail??
7. I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.
8. There is no chance unless you take one.
9. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
10. You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
11. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
12. It’s better to have tried and failed, than not to have tried at all.
13. When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
14. You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
15. Fear is temporary, regret is forever.
16. If you try to fail and succeed, then which have you done?
17. If at first, you don’t succeed, try again until you bleed
18. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.

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Brainy Quotes about People

1. Tough times never last, but tough people do.
2. It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.
3. In our pursuit to find the enemy, we come face to face with ourselves.
4. The universe contains protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons.
5. Good girls are found on every corner of the earth but unfortunately, the earth is round.
6. Wise man talk because they have something to say,
   fools talk because they have to say something.
7. People are like chocolates some soft-centered some hard some are just plain nutty.
8. When someone tries to impress you … It means he/she is already impressed by you!

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Brainy Quotes about Love

1. Love is giving somebody the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to.
2. Love is like a rose in the winter, only the strong survive.
3. How can people say I love you so easily?
4. Don’t they know that every time they do they give a piece of your heart to someone…when you finally do REALLY LOVE someone will there be enough of your heart to give???
5. Life is like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we never use…
6. Love all, trust a few.
7. If all boys are the same, why are girls so picky?
8. Love is like a wind,..you can feel it but you can’t see it
9. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Brainy Quotes about Friends

1. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
2. “A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
3. It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.
4. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
5. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
6. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Brainy Quotes about Truth / Lies

1. The message below is a lie,
   The message above is the truth.
2. Real Eyes. Realize. Real Lies.
3. Always say what you mean and mean what you say.
4. Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

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Funny Brainy Quotes

1. If at first, you don’t succeed……you’re not Chuck Norris.
2. A balanced diet means a cookie in both hands.
3. I have enough money to last me the rest of my life… Provided I die in the next hour or so.
4. Life may give you sh*t but that’s what toilet paper is for.
5. If you want breakfast in bed. Sleep in the kitchen.
6. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A garlic a day keeps everyone away!
7. If life is so hard how come so many idiots are doing it?
8. I asked my parents what’s it like to have such an awesome kid, they told me to ask my grandparents.
9. My favorite text message “I will be there in 5 minutes, if not read again”.
10. I didn’t fail math. I just found a lot of ways not to do it.
11. A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
12. My parents told me “You watch too much TV and should try reading more!” So I turned on the subtitles.
13. You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
14. If you believe that guns are the cause of murders and other crimes then pencils must be responsible for misspelled words.
15. How can you tell me to never say never when you just said never?
16. Did you sleep well? No, I made a couple of mistakes.
17. Every rule has an exception. Especially this one.
18. Imagination is a power you can’t imagine.

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Savage Brainy Quotes

1. I hate two-faced people. It’s hard to decide which face to slap first.
2. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
3. Wisdom = refined stupidity
4. To be old and wise, first, you must be young and stupid.

Other Brainy Quotes

1. If I’m driving you crazy just remember to put on your seat belt.
2. Don’t ever be depending on the rabbit’s foot for good luck when it obviously didn’t work for the rabbit.
3. If practice makes perfect and no one is perfect, why practice?
4. A fool isn’t someone who is wrong, a fool is someone who is afraid of being wrong.
5. Anger is one letter short of danger.
6. I’m not clever, I just don’t know how to be stupid.
7. Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.
8. You’ll lose a lot of money, chasing women. But you’ll never lose women, chasing money.                                
9. Money does not buy happiness but it sure pays off stress.

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