Brain Quotes

• The great events of the world take place in the brain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Events, World, Unlawful

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

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• The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

  Rex Stout

  Stomach

  Rex Stout (2010). “Trio for Blunt Instruments”, p.159, Crimeline

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• Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

  Warren Buffett

  Integrity, Passion, Focus

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

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Nervous, Adaptation, Humans

  Michael S. Gazzaniga (2000). “The Mind's Past”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• To think is to practice brain chemistry.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Practice, Chemistry

  Deepak Chopra (1995). “Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

  Will Rogers

  Healing, Exercise, Like You

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• Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Mind, Awareness

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

  William Allman

  Beautiful, Lying, Cells

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• I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

  Virginia Woolf

  Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4339, Delphi Classics

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• It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

  Oscar Wilde

  Apples, Red, Poppies

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.9, Penguin

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• The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Reflection, Long, Mystery

  Charlas de Cafe

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• Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Knowledge, Gun, Dollars

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• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Knowledge, Polish

  Essays Bk 1 (transl. D. M. Frame)

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

  Amber Valletta

  Mean, Intelligent, Ifs

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• The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Creativity, Science, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Men, Desire, Sculptors

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• Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Heart, Emotion

  1855 Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza 1.

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• In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

  Susan Blackmore

  Giving, Use, Weight

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• The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

  Richard Selzer

  Dream, Doe, Patient

  Mortal Lessons p. 21. Chatto & Windus, London (1981)

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• I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

  William Standish Knowles

  Hands, Wells

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• Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

  Oliver Sacks

  Addresses, Hallucinations, Psychotic

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• The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

  Isaac Asimov

  Organization, Matter, Complicated

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feds, Ill, Mental Power

  Herbert Spencer (1919). “Synthetic Philosophy ...”

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