Brain Quotes: Thought-Provoking Insights on the Mind

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"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

"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

"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

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

Robin Williams, Comedian

"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

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

Paul Simon, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

L. Frank Baum, Author

"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

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

Will Champion, Musician

"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

"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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

"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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"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

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"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

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"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

"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"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

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