Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the… — Dolores LaChapelle
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to… — James Russell Lowell
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice. — Vladimir Lenin
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with… — Edward Thorndike
The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is… — Emanuel Lasker
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that… — Julia Ward Howe
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of… — Alan Bradley
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as… — David Eagleman
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you. — David Eagleman
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but… — David Eagleman
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. — David Eagleman
It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's happening in your… — David Eagleman
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it. — Michael Merzenich
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years… — Michael Merzenich
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain… — Michael Merzenich
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it… — Michael Merzenich
But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only… — Silas House
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult… — Jeremy Brett
This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though… — The Rev
All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain. — Temple Grandin
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. — Peter Lynch
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling. — Mira Bartok
He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head. — Unknown Author

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