Brains Quotes
985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors
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Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
— Dan Brown
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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their…
— Arundhati Roy
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure…
— Adrienne Rich
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When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound.…
— Gavin Extence
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
— Mae West
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It's hard to find a good guy... all girls know that guys don't think with their brains.
— Miley Cyrus
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Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.
— Robert McNamara
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
— William Feather
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The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
— John Philip Sousa
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Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
— Arundhati Roy
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If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of…
— David Brooks
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Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?
— Victor J. Stenger
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.
— George Carlin
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There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without…
— Raph Koster
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to…
— Bernard Baruch
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Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power…
— Og Mandino
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I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.
— Richard Branson
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For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and…
— Richard Leakey
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While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and…
— Carl Sagan
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
— Marvin Minsky
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