The Brain Quotes

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

I am a movement chauvinist.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.

I flashed her a smile, but she didn't even look at me. So for brains and good judgment, I'd give her a three.

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.