Brainy Thoughts

“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who may be better employed.”

Socrates

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walter Whitman (1819 – 1892) American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism.

“To thine own self be true”

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English playwright and poet.

“I have many unrecognised talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant)

“Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.“

Barack Hussein Obama II (1961 -) President-elect of the United States, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States

“The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983) was an American social writer. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan.