Brain Quotes - Page 46

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.