Brain Quotes - page 3

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God". (Anton LaVey)
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. View quote
Don DeLillo
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? View quote
Virginia Woolf
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. View quote
William Blake
The brain is wider than the sky. View quote
Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Morality is the weakness of the brain. (Arthur Rimbaud)
My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. View quote
Eminem
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
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. View quote
Louis Nizer
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. View quote
Mark Twain
The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. View quote
Nikola Tesla
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. View quote
Mark Strand
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. (Maurice Gibb)
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at leastto grow your own brain. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. View quote
Sophia Bush
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? View quote
Anthony Doerr
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. View quote
Howard Gardner