Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is. — Michael Douglas
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating… — Paulo Coelho
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov
No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all. — L. Frank Baum
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons.… — Tim Berners-Lee
Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. — Ambrose Bierce
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we… — Francis Crick
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. — Rene Descartes
A man with so large a brain must have something in it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. — Bob Dylan

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