How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The brain is the only organ that tries to make sense of its pain. It is as if the bone were trying… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must… — John Green Copy Share Image
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“The repeated finding that people with happier, less troubled thought patterns can suffer more illness seems to defy common sense. The general… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Everything is super personal. Basically all of the songs are 'this is my life and what I feel about it.' That's how… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
Have I ever told you how sexy your brain is?" "Finally! A man who wants me for my brain." "I want all… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in… — Ruth Fishel Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image