Brain Quotes

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know.

There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Minds are simply what brains do.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.