--- title: "7 Brain And Mind Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Brain And Mind quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Brain And Mind sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/adam-gopnik-6789_art_daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophistica_736726.jpg" --- > [Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-gopnik/daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophisticated-ideas-that-exist-about/) [Adam Gopnik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-gopnik/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/adam-gopnik-6789_art_daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophistica_736726.jpg) > [The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/the-brain-is-an-immensely-complex-organ-and-many-mysteries-remain/) [Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/siri-hustvedt-860_brain_the-brain-is-an-immensely-complex-organ_774923.jpg) > [Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/nature-in-her-unfathomable-designs-had-mixed-us-of-clay-and-flame-of/) [William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/william-james-228_brain_nature-in-her-unfathomable-designs-had-m_1168612.png) > [“Also bearing witness to the unbearable nature of the vulnerability experienced by peer-oriented kids is the preponderance of vulnerability-quelling drugs. Peer-oriented kids…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/also-bearing-witness-to-the-unbearable-nature-of-the-vulnerability/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/gabor-mat-1410_bearing-witness_also-bearing-witness-to-the-unbearable-n_1967330.png) > [You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-hill/you-have-a-brain-and-mind-of-your-own-use-it-and-reach-your-own/) [Napoleon Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-hill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/napoleon-hill-201_brain_you-have-a-brain-and-mind-of-your-own-us_2071439.jpg) > [“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ant-nio-r-dam-sio/the-distinction-between-diseases-of-brain-and-mind-between/) [António R. Damásio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ant-nio-r-dam-sio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/ant-nio-r-dam-sio-40559_brain_the-distinction-between-diseases-of-brai_2471642.jpg) > [ There's \[in Outcast\] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eyedea/there-s-in-outcast-so-much-for-my-ear-brain-and-mind-and-body-to-gain/) [Eyedea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eyedea/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/eyedea-13974_body_there-s-in-outcast-so-much-for-my-ear-br_3066699.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain-and-mind/#itemlist", "name": "Brain And Mind Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Gopnik" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-gopnik/daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophisticated-ideas-that-exist-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/adam-gopnik-6789_art_daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophistica_736726.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/adam-gopnik-6789_art_daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophistica_736726.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/adam-gopnik-6789_art_daniel-levitin-takes-the-most-sophistica_736726.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the…” — Adam Gopnik", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. 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Peer-oriented kids will do anything to avoid the human feelings of aloneness, suffering, and pain, and to escape feeling hurt, exposed, alarmed, insecure, inadequate, or self-conscious. The older and more peer-oriented the kids, the more drugs seem to be an inherent part of their lifestyle. Peer orientation creates an appetite for anything that would reduce vulnerability. Drugs are emotional painkillers. And, in another way, they help young people escape from the benumbed state imposed by their defensive emotional detachment. With the shutdown of emotions come boredom and alienation. Drugs provide an artificial stimulation to the emotionally jaded. They heighten sensation and provide a false sense of engagement without incurring the risks of genuine openness. In fact, the same drug can play seemingly opposite functions in an individual. Alcohol and marijuana, for example, can numb or, on the other hand, free the brain and mind from social inhibitions. Other drugs are stimulants — cocaine, amphetamines, and ecstasy; the very name of the latter speaks volumes about exactly what is missing in the psychic life of our emotionally incapacitated young people. The psychological function served by these drugs is often overlooked by well-meaning adults who perceive the problem to be coming from outside the individual, through peer pressure and youth culture mores. It is not just a matter of getting our children to say no. The problem lies much deeper. As long as we do not confront and reverse peer orientation among our children, we are creating an insatiable appetite for these drugs. The affinity for vulnerability-reducing drugs originates from deep within the defended soul. Our children's emotional safety can come only from us: then they will not be driven to escape their feelings and to rely on the anesthetic effects of drugs. Their need to feel alive and excited can and should arise from within themselves, from their own innately limitless capacity to be engaged with the universe. This brings us back to the essential hierarchical nature of attachment. The more the child needs attachment to function, the more important it is that she attaches to those responsible for her. Only then can the vulnerability that is inherent in emotional attachment be endured. Children don't need friends, they need parents, grandparents, adults who will assume the responsibility to hold on to them. The more children are attached to caring adults, the more they are able to interact with peers without being overwhelmed by the vulnerability involved. The less peers matter, the more the vulnerability of peer relationships can be endured. It is exactly those children who don't need friends who are more capable of having friends without losing their ability to feel deeply and vulnerably. 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