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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse. — Julia Cameron
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related… — Malcolm Gladwell
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. — Ian Stewart
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir… — Robert Anton Wilson
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been — Angela Carter
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a… — Siri Hustvedt
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein
We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that… — Michael Shermer
I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is… — Gabrielle Zevin
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to… — Sam Harris
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.… — Ann Patchett
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought… — Aimee Bender
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. — Tom Robbins
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain,… — MacDonald Harris
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor… — Carl Sagan
Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the… — Neal Shusterman
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
The people of the world, all of them, whether it is the different race or the different language or the different lifestyle, tend to only… — Naoko Takeuchi
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
We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all. — George Carlin
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
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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