Brain Quotes - Page 34

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less.

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.