Brain Quotes

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

No man can use his brain to think for another.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

I blinked and I cured my brain.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Data is your eyes, not your brain.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

The right brain is finally being taken seriously.

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.