The Brain Quotes

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

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.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.

I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.