Brain Quotes
4501 quotes by 2589 authors
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
— Edward Abbey
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I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who…
— Martin Amis
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I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from…
— Terry Pratchett
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is…
— Philip K. Dick
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.…
— Gertrude Atherton
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I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.
— Thaksin Shinawatra
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In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would…
— Thucydides
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I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.
— Hannibal
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
— Virginia Woolf
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the…
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain
— Thom Yorke
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Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly…
— Thom Yorke
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
— William Shakespeare
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to…
— Michael Moorcock
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science…
— Harlan Ellison
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A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of…
— N. Scott Momaday
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Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on,…
— Napoleon Hill
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