Brain Quotes

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

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

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.