Human Brain Quotes
153 Human Brain quotes by 129 unique authors
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
— Voltaire
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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
— Walter de La Mare
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Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love,…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men…
— Aldous Huxley
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The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the…
— John Green
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I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
— Don DeLillo
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Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an…
— John Steinbeck
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That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly…
— Aldous Huxley
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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?†I snicker. “Something funny…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be…
— Anna Funder
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Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the…
— Dalai Lama
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Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human…
— Sugata Mitra
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A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
— Henry Markram
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All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in…
— Jay S. Walker
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When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he…
— Aditi Shankardass
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Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat…
— David Perlmutter
Who Wrote These Human Brain Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 153 Human Brain Quotes, led by these top contributors: