Brain Quotes

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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we… — Barry Hughart
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. — Martha Stout
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky
If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery… — Carter Burwell
Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do. — Pete Wentz
It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car… — Radhanath Swami
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a… — H R Giger
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are… — Dennis McKenna
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's… — Arshile Gorky
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very… — Harry J. Anslinger
Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or… — Richard Trumka
Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and… — John C. Lilly
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not… — Philip Guston
Economics is a form of brain damage, — Hazel Henderson
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is… — Hazel Henderson
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will.… — Marya Hornbacher
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your… — Ann Miller
Maybe if I point to my brain it will work... — Chris Cheney
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you… — Koichi Tohei
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana. — Ronald Reagan
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through… — Leo Tolstoy
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of… — Upton Sinclair
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring… — Mark Batterson

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