Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. — Herman Melville
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are… — Philip Zimbardo
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. — Douglas Coupland
I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool. — Derek Raymond
Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating. — Jessica Mitford
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the… — Fritz Zwicky
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used… — Merrill Markoe
Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say,… — Isabella Blow
When I cook, my brain stops completely. — Dino De Laurentiis
The brain is closer to the skull, — Randy Carlyle
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality… — Scott Stossel
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of… — Orison S. Marden
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there… — Franz Stampfl
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. — Al-MaÊ¿arri
Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness. — Michio Kushi
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed… — Bernd Heinrich
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files… — Theodore Zeldin
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon… — Paul Broca
Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try… — Seohyun
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly… — Lewis Buzbee
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose… — Yoshida Kenko
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills. — Soichiro Honda

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