Brain Quotes - Page 2

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart... not so much.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

The x-ray of your skull shows a large, flobby mass floating inside. I have to consult my colleagues to be certain, but it looks like a long sausage snarled into a lump.

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!