Brain Quotes

"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company"

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge"

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work"

"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020"

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office"

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes"

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart"

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"

"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door"

"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart"

"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker"

"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival"

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

"I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it"

"With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain"

"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are"

"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain"

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work"

"Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it"

"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up"

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around"

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"

"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it"

"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"

"I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain"