Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from… — Thomas Metzinger
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. — Edith Widder
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. — Unknown Author
I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport. Â For me it's just a way of life. Â It's a chance to finally shut your brain… — Travis Rice
Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been… — Nick Begich
Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get… — Bryan Beller
We see with our brains, not with our eyes. — Paul Bach-y-Rita
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember… — Douglas Rushkoff
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise… — Dan Harris
You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody… — Charles Manson
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my… — Wallace Stegner
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock… — Barbara Kingsolver
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by… — Nadine Gordimer
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and… — Stendhal
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much… — Matt Damon
Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your… — Howard Martin
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard… — George Bernard Shaw
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? — Clare Boothe Luce
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave… — Alexander MacLaren
Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents… — Temple Grandin
When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't… — Don King
Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now. — John Spence

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