Brain Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Learning Muscles Understanding
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well,… — Dr Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally. — Frank Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain. — John Eccles Copy Share Image
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Understanding is an evolved state of awareness. Mix that in with compassion and youre well on your way! — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
To understand something... we need knowledge, but to feel it...we need experience. — Ally Mbululo Copy Share Image
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image