Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't… — Frederick Lenz
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect… — Ben Jonson
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. — Christopher Bollen
For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but… — Misty Copeland
I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to… — Elizabeth Banks
One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that… — Robert Reich
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra… — Benjamin Carson
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them. — W. Somerset Maugham
You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I… — Rajneesh
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that… — Annie Dillard
The brain is the citadel of sense perception. — Pliny the Elder
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as… — Sydney J. Harris
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. — Barbara Kingsolver
It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to… — Dave Barry
Brain-washing starts in the cradle. — Arthur Koestler
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain… — Edvard Munch
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on… — Emma Goldman
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain. — Mike Ditka

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