Brain Quotes - Page 14

• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Peace, War, Dramatic Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Cosmos

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blue, Sea, Sky

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “The Pocket Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

  Charles Portis

  Thieves, Grit, Mouths

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black

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• But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Secret, Psychedelic

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  L. Frank Baum

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Free Jazz

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Heart

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• Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hippie, Kissing, Sky

  Song: Purple Haze

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• As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Crush, Perfume

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

  Aesop

  Beautiful, House, Actors

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

  L. Frank Baum

  Knows

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spirit, Poor, Amazed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1908). “Faust: Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem”

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• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  History Of Life, Intimate, External Forces

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• My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Air, Blood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Atoms

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted.

  Robert Sutton Harrington

  Integrity, Science, Moon

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• This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

  Edwin Land

  Health, Science, Animal

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• If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.

  Carl Zimmer

  Crazy, Writing, People

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