Brain Quote by Lauren Oliver

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's…

— Simon McBurney

“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver…

— Stephen King

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

It is when you under-estimate the power of your mind that it begins control you most.

— Terry Mark

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

— David Eagleman

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

— Bill Watterson

If you can stop thinking, it's like rebooting your brain.

— Frank Skinner

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

— Anonymous

When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these…

— John Assaraf

“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as it will…

— Brian Goedken

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt