The world is full of some truly brilliant people. They have gathered knowledge over difficult and often long lives, bolstered by their experiences, their successes, and their failures. In this list, we dig up some of the most brilliant quotes from the world’s top minds of today and yesterday.
Some of the people on this list may be controversial. For example, Adolf Hitler is on here; while he did horrific things to the world and its people, he was nonetheless a sharp and clever man who understood the human thought process and was able to control and harness it for his own evil desires. Others are less controversial, such as Edward L. Bernays – Sigmund Freud’s nephew and one of the early pioneers of public relations and propaganda – who talks about the basic elements needed for a democratic society. (They are not what you might think, according to him.)
Many of the quotes are relevant to events happening every day in our lives, from work to wealth to politics. Feel free to share with your friends, family, and social networks any of these quotes which inspire you or make you stop and think. Let’s get started with this list of 10 Brilliant Quotes You’ll Want To Hear From the World’s Top Minds.
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” – Steve Jobs
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“Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.” – Vint Cerf
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“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” – Roy H. Williams
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“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.” – Abraham/Esther Hicks
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“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?” – C.S. Lewis
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“An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.” – Vera Nazarian
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“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.” – Stephen Hawking
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“So far, the reality is that the whole of religion has only been death-oriented rather than life-oriented. What has been important about religions is what comes after death, not what is before death. Up to now, the viewpoints of religions has been to revere death, not life. Nowhere is the reverence of the flowers of life to be found; everywhere there are only eulogies and reverence for dead flowers, withered flowers, flowers that have gone to their graves.” – Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
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