Brain Quotes

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so… — Gracie Allen
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the… — Chellie Pingree
The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they… — Patricia Schroeder
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own… — Antonio Gramsci
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our… — David Byrne
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by… — Hippocrates
You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really… — Gerard Way
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:… — Jonathan Franzen
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels
Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that… — Mina Loy
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe — Nikola Tesla
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. — Dave Eggers
Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain. — Amit Goswami
Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number… — Chris Kilham
You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe.… — Tana French
My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one. — Diane Lane
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret. — H. L. Mencken
It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain… — Sterling W Sill
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. — Francis M. Lyman
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. — Stanislav Grof
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way… — Jason Mraz

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