Brain Quote by Lewis Thomas

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“You see, nothing is more immediate, more complete than the sense of smell. In an instant, it has the power to transport you. Your…

— Kathleen Tessaro

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

— Mary Stewart

“Smell is such a powerful sense; capable of bringing memory to the mind more powerfully than sight or sound. There is nothing that can…

— Anonymous

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

— Lyall Watson

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger…

— Donna Karan

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back…

— Sophie Dahl

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves…

— Lyall Watson

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel.…

— Ellen Pompeo

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

— Thalassa Cruso

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant