Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone,… — George Matthew Adams
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains… — Lynne Truss
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing… — Lewis Thomas
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. — Wilkie Collins
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a… — Tracy Kidder
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes… — Douglas Coupland
Where does personality end and brain damage begin? — Douglas Coupland
A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me. — James Agee
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the… — Jonah Lehrer
It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At… — Marian McPartland
I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done. — Todd McFarlane
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the… — Jo Nesbo
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can… — Jo Nesbo
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. — Sam Neill
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have… — Denise Van Outen
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. — Meghan O'Rourke
I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go… — Tea Obreht
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. — Ellen Pompeo
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan
A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts. — Ani DiFranco
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one… — Voltaire

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