Brain Quotes: Thought-Provoking Insights on the Mind

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"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

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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"

Robert Frost, Poet

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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

"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"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"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"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"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"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"You can't process me with a normal brain"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain"

Mary Lynn Rajskub, Actress

"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

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

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason"

Ted Danson, Actor

"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

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