Brain Quotes

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. — Herman Melville
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. — George Szell
There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden… — Sara Blakely
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is… — Hippocrates
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,… — Stanley Baldwin
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. — Kate Seredy
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond… — Charles Stross
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the… — A. N. Wilson
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong. — Norman Cousins
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race. — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand. — Thaksin Shinawatra
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
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
Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains. — Hannibal
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
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
Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain — Thom Yorke
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
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare
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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