Brain Quotes - Page 10

• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Sky

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

  Scott Adams

  Way, Tiny, One Way

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• No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Thinking, Stronger

  "Laughs: A Sovereign Remedy for Boredom". Book by Thomas Lansing Masson, p. 167, 1926.

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• trust your heart but use your head

  Julie Garwood

  Trust, Heart, Mind

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Math, Thinking

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Men, Ideas, World

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air, Enemy, Warfare

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• But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

  Steven Pinker

  Gmos, Perception, Research

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• Minds are simply what brains do.

  Marvin Minsky

  Mind

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Running, Moving, Animal

  "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

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• Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

  Marilu Henner

  Function, Wells, Whole

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Breathing

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

  Michael J. Fox

  Men, Speech

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• The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Iron, Substance, Hardest

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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• Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Force, Brutes, Bounds

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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• ...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

  Hippocrates

  Powerful, Fall, Disease

  Hippocrates (1964). “The theory and practice of medicine”

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• Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

  Hippocrates

  Heart, Understanding, Causes

  Hippocrates (2007). “On the Sacred Disease”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

  William James

  Views, Unbroken, Consciousness

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Hundred, Bigs, Committees

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• 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.

  Gary Larson

  Gentleman, Mammals, Climate

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

  Primo Levi

  Heart, Exaltation, Kidneys

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• I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

  A. A. Milne

  Bears, Foolish, Has Beens

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.37, Egmont UK

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• You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

  Ashley Montagu

  Genius, Idiot, Structure

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• Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

  Isaac Newton

  Vision, Nerves, Fiber

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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