Brain Quote by Benjamin Hooks

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

— James Russell Lowell

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

— John Lothrop Motley

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

— Christina Stead

“Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.”

— Carl Sagan

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its…

— Madame de Stael

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

— Sigmund Freud

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson