The Brain Quotes

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body.

Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

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

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.