Brain Quotes

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain"

Tina Louise, Actress

"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest"

George Combe, Educator

"I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going"

Magnus Magnusson, Journalist

"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams"

Donald G. Mitchell

"Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"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"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"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"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs"

King James I, Royalty

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

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met"

Farrah Fawcett, Actress

"When I cook, my brain stops completely"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded"

Eric San, Musician

"Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think"

David Beckham, Athlete

"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain"

Sam Mendes, Director

"In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain"

Phaedrus, Poet

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything"

Nikola Tesla, Inventor

"Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain"

Childe Hassam, Artist

"I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory"

Art Spiegelman, Artist

"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs"

Edgar Rice Burroghs

"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area"

Karen Duffy, Actress

"When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right"

Craig Stevens, Athlete

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