Brains Quotes

985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels
What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with… — Henri
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns… — Jane Goodall
I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us,… — Tahir Shah
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a… — Richard Yates
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and… — A. E. Housman
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. — Scott Lynch
You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings. — L. S. Lowry
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall
Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and… — Brian Clough
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than… — John P. Kotter
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. — Aesop
Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness,… — Paul Pearsall
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as… — Archibald Rutledge
We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace. — John Ruskin
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. — E. W. Howe
I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains. — Richard Griffiths
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains. — Josh Billings
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… — Washington Irving
Squirrel brains make you smart. — Kay Robertson
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought… — Mark Twain

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