Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is… — Douglas Adams
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is… — Alfred de Musset
Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What… — Ayn Rand
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my… — Irvine Welsh
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. — Franz Kafka
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. — Francis Crick
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… — George Saunders
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a… — Emile M. Cioran
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and… — Douglas Adams
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to… — Alan Brennert
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move,… — Elizabeth Kostova
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher… — Chuck Palahniuk
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be… — Holly Black
Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and… — Barbara Kingsolver
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within… — Primo Levi
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm… — Temple Grandin
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we… — Elizabeth Berg
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly. — A A Milne
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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