Brain Quote by John Medina

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

— Vikas Swarup

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

— Jules Verne

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body…

— Ruby Wax

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be…

— Lewis Thomas

“This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for people to…

— Sherry Turkle

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

— Thomas A. Edison

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

— Edward Boyden

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

— George Bernard Shaw

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think…

— Tim Birkhead

“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society…

— António R. Damásio