Quotes and Sayings About Brain
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
-- A. E. Housman -
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
-- Abby Sunderland -
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
-- Abdul Kalam -
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
-- Aberjhani -
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
-- Ada Lovelace -
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
-- Adam Savage -
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
-- Adora Svitak -
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
-- Adrian Tan -
When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
-- Adyashanti -
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
-- Aeschylus -
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
-- Agatha Christie -
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
-- Agatha Christie -
Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
-- Agatha Christie -
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
-- Aimee Bender -
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
-- Aimee Mann -
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
-- Aimee Mann -
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
-- Al Yankovic -
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
-- Alan Bradley -
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
-- Alan Furst -
A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
-- Alan Gottlieb -
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
-- Alan Kay -
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
-- Alan Lightman -
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
-- Alan Lightman -
Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
-- Alan Lightman -
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
-- Alan Turing