Brain Quotes
4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors
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What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with…
— Henri
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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting…
— Jeff Tweedy
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas…
— Robert Smithson
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
— Alison Gopnik
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My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser
— George Watsky
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The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of…
— Philip Yancey
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Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.
— Robert Burton
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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
— Charles Duhigg
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My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who…
— Gillian Flynn
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The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns…
— Jane Goodall
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I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe…
— Olivia Wilde
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Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.
— Triple H
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Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.
— John Cena
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In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread…
— CM Punk
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I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us,…
— Tahir Shah
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We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
— Euripides
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Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain
— Matthieu Ricard
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You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex…
— E L Doctorow
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Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a…
— Richard Yates
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I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.
— Greg McKeown
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Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
— Oliver Sacks
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My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.
— Andy Weir
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The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain…
— Ben Utecht
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Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same…
— Jeremy Grantham
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