Brain Quotes
4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors
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Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.
— George Lakoff
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The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
— Owen Gingerich
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One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes…
— Layne Redmond
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You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet…
— Rod Serling
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the…
— Lydia M. Child
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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a…
— A. E. Housman
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An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
— John Bunyan
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
— Herman Melville
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
— Herman Melville
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God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.
— Konrad Adenauer
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When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
— Norman Cousins
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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on…
— Robert Benchley
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The brain heals the past like an injury ...
— Arthur Miller
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What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in…
— Ezra Pound
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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of…
— Franz Kafka
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a…
— Primo Levi
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Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
— Arthur Miller
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The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn…
— Neil Postman
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