Brain Quotes

It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at th...

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnor...

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. ...

It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wro...

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is w...

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I c...

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the b...

The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. ...

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American pe...

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought ...

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, an...

Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking t...

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Y...

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy...

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given ...

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which ...

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last ...

Bhramari Om Chanting or Humming Om chanting sends positive messages to the brain and the cells in ou...

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain...

The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the mol...

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task a...

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pl...

What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible ...

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with...

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with...

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it...

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with...

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, stayi...

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only th...

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educa...

with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devot...

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences inc...

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically...

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of t...

MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality,...

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense i...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were...

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, d...

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sus...

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substa...

As your trillions of new connections continually form and re-form, the distinctive pattern means tha...

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t h...

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system ...

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

There's someone in my head, but it's not me."Pink FloydDavid Eagleman

So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky...

Each of us is on our own trajectory – steered by our genes and our experiences – and as a result eve...

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain...

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same ti...

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of ...

Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to ove...

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The ...

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why ...

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...

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...