Brain Quotes · Page 65

“The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.”

— Steven Magee

“My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

— Georges St-Pierre

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

— Johan Huizinga

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

— Sid Vicious

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

— Gautama Buddha

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

— Todd McFarlane

“Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.”

— Rich Shapero

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with…

— Lev Grossman

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations,…

— Stephen LaBerge

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of…

— Ally Carter

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing…

— Nadine Gordimer

Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think…

— Cheryl Strayed

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to…

— George Crabbe

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not…

— Angelique Kidjo

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…

— Siri Hustvedt

When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else.…

— Butch Trucks

We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:…

— Dan Ariely

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be…

— Brit Marling

Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts…

— Norah Vincent

Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at…

— Ram Dass

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something…

— Johnny Depp

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

— Deepak Chopra

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

— Ian Anderson

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

— Austin Kleon

Power Doesn't Mean The Pysical & Body Power's..It's Mean That What U'r Brain Have...;)

— Hrittick Dutta Nilavo

Thinking of sex provides enough mental stimulation to reduce risk of diseases that damage the brain.

— Anonymous

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

— Stefan Zweig

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

— Napoleon Hill

“Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It’s when we delve deepest into that well.”

— Jason Arnopp

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

— Gordon Ramsay

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

— Ted Nugent

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that…

— Ranbir Kapoor

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

— Anonymous

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

— Timothy Leary

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

— Guy Berryman

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

— Andrew Carnegie