Brain Quotes: Thought-Provoking Insights on the Mind

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"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!"

Alexander Pope, Poet

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

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist"

Louis Nizer, Lawyer

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it"

Paul Simon, Musician

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

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

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"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"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain"

Celine Dion, Musician

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression"

Bill Bryson, Writer

"I have a brain and a uterus and I use both"

Patricia Schroeder, Leader

"Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut"

Mark McKinney, Comedian

"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met"

Farrah Fawcett, Actress

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary"

Anna Friel, Actress

"Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain"

John Mayer, Musician

"I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something"

Will Champion, Musician

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital"

George Steiner, Critic

"There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

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