Brain Quotes

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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. — Margaret Atwood
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. — Tom Waits
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. — Anton Chekhov
I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by… — Vincent Van Gogh
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most… — Paul Gauguin
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose… — Freya Stark
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. — Johan Huizinga
Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about. — Sherwood Anderson
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. — David Hockney
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is… — Richard M. Nixon
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. — Antoine Rivarol
Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. — Charles G. Dawes
Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts — Steve Pavlina
Strain your brain more than your eye. — Thomas Eakins
Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which… — Brian Johnson

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