The Brain Quotes

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.

The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.

The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

Intellect--brain force.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.

When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

My brain said no. But my heart!

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Why doesn't my stupid brain understand that I always wanted to be you? No you; no,no..you.Hey,you! now what are you smiling at.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.