Brain Quotes

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Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them… — Antonin Scalia
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll… — Anna Kendrick
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands. — Carl Jung
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth… — B. C. Forbes
I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives… — John Masefield
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has… — Gary Snyder
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — Richard Dawkins
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only… — Ayn Rand
I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to… — Clint Eastwood
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that… — Carl Zimmer
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off.… — Justin Timberlake
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God,… — Charles Spurgeon
Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. — Louis Auguste Blanqui
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the… — Diane Ackerman
The brain has not explained the mind fully. — Wilder Penfield
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think. — Farrah Fawcett
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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