Brain Quotes - Page 8

trust your heart but use your head

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

It was his subconscious which told him this - that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

Looks fade. Brains don't.

Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

If you could use your brain like you use your ass.

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.