Brain Quotes
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"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
"Rabbit's clever,"said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes,"said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes,"said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose,"said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
"My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life."
"Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty."
"How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all."
"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."
"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."
"The love of my life has made me the happiest man ever. This ever-smiling man/mannequin is so happy because he’s got no brain, and in this way is identical to anyone who still rah-rahs for either a Republican or a Democrat."
"I love when my cat crushes his forehead into mine like my skull is an empty beer can. But it’s not—there’s still a sip left."
"No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think."
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."
"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."
"The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer."
"She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination."
"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."
"Stuff your brain with knowledge."
"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."
"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."
"You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do."
"The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen."
"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."
"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise."
"As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon."
"A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced"
"The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning."
"Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program."
"There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing."
"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."
"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."
"When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way."
"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."
"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say."
"You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart."
"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."
"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."
"...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful,"it will be more likely to be recalled in the future."
"To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future."
"I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes."
"My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving."
"His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?"
"My clone will have my mind, but I don’t mind. Two heads are better than one—especially when those two are one and the same."
"Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup."
"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.The thought behind, I strove to joinUnto the thought before—But Sequence ravelled out of SoundLike Balls—upon a Floor."
"When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid."
"I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease."
Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
"My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
"Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore..."
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