Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… — Hippocrates
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these… — Hippocrates
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,… — William James
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of… — Gary Larson
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. — William Shakespeare
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. — Cybill Shepherd
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains. — Herbert Spencer
Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all… — Daniel Tammet
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain. — Shania Twain
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings. — Oscar Wilde

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