Brain Quotes - page 2

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. View quote
Helen Keller
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. View quote
Ivo Andrić
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. View quote
Albert Einstein
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. View quote
Tadao Ando
I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness. (Graham Hancock)
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. View quote
Groucho Marx
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. View quote
David Zindell
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. View quote
Eric Kandel
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country. View quote
Harvey Milk
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. View quote
Stephen Hawking
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. (Alfred North Whitehead)
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. View quote
Maya Angelou
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. View quote
Steve Jobs
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. View quote
Jill Bolte Taylor