Brains Quotes

985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush. — Juliana Hatfield
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic. — Zoe Saldana
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those… — Claude Vorilhon
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order… — Eugenio Maria de Hostos
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. — Russell Lynes

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