Brain Quotes

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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that,… — Walker Percy
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where… — Warren Ellis
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All… — P.G. Wodehouse
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm… — Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no… — Audre Lorde
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that… — Voltaire
How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation… — Douglas Hofstadter
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make… — Emily Dickinson
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have… — C.S. Lewis
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual… — Ayn Rand
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is. — A A Milne
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And… — P.G. Wodehouse
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. — C.S. Lewis
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think? — L. Frank Baum
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own. — Charles Spurgeon
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. — Spencer W. Kimball
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that… — Bertrand Russell
I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the… — Bruce Robinson

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