Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart. — Unknown Author
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
You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the… — Eminem
Brain so good could've sworn you went to college — Unknown Author
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't,… — Cynthia Heimel
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock… — Russell Baker
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. — Jay Abraham
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,… — Mark Twain
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always… — Charles Duhigg
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth… — Norman Cousins
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy. — William Shakespeare
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a… — Winston Churchill
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was… — James Madison
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain… — William Blake
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the… — Edward Anthony Spitzka

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