Brain Quotes

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn i...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people...

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large ...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someon...

I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells.

A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever...

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make t...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat S...

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was tell...

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in t...

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the wh...

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and yo...

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not n...

If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But ...

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never exper...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, tha...

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almos...

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's bra...

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying t...

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that do...

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cort...

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problem...

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertak...

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's b...

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is...

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of ...

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, det...

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, w...

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not k...

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one br...

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some...

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G...

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by...

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on t...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21s...

The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -...

These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamu...

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin...

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious e...

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else...

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was ...

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children wit...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a s...

The real functional "machinery" of the brain, for Edelman, consists of millions of neuronal groups, ...

…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It'...

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and ...

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was domi...

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient materia...

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look mor...

#36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the...

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which i...

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without w...

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by a...

The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important dec...

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the win...

When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely emp...

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not s...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must ...

Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two ...

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will a...

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning