Famous Quote by Will Cuppy

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only…

— Will Cuppy

“Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or…

— William Harvey

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is,…

— J. M. Coetzee

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

— Tan Le

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

— Abu Bakr

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all…

— Richard Dawkins

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

— Sydney J. Harris

“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in…

— David Brooks

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…

— Ralph Cudworth