Brain Quotes

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

"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

"Books, the children of the brain"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"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

"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

"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

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"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

"What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way"

St. Jerome, Saint

"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"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

"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"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"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

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

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain"

John Calvin, Theologian

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one"

Tyler Perry, Actor

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

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

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

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"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

"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

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

Erica Jong, Novelist

"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain"

William Howard Taft, President

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy"

Tom Robbins, Author

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