Brain Quotes

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with...

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, stayi...

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only th...

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educa...

with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devot...

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences inc...

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically...

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of t...

MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality,...

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense i...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were...

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, d...

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sus...

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substa...

As your trillions of new connections continually form and re-form, the distinctive pattern means tha...

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t h...

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system ...

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

There's someone in my head, but it's not me."Pink FloydDavid Eagleman

So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky...

Each of us is on our own trajectory – steered by our genes and our experiences – and as a result eve...

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain...

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same ti...

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of ...

Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to ove...

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The ...

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why ...

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn i...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people...

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large ...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someon...

I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells.

A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever...

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make t...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat S...

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was tell...

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in t...

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the wh...

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and yo...

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not n...

If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But ...

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never exper...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, tha...

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almos...

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's bra...

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying t...

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that do...

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cort...

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problem...

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertak...

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's b...

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is...

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of ...

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, det...

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, w...

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not k...

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one br...

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some...

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G...

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by...

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on t...