Wilder Penfield Quotes

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Wilder Penfield

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• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• I'm a human being, and I get sick.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Human
  • Sick
  • Human being

• You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• 'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Brain

• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Game
  • Destiny

• This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Brain
  • Personality

• I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Brain
  • Professional

• 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
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• I'm not as athletic as some guys, so I have to counter that with a tremendous brain that thinks the game.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Game
  • Brain

• I sat there in awe that some guy overseas, trying to protect our interests, was using a silly comedy as a survival tool. My brain had an explosion. I was really moved by that.

  

  David Denman
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • World
  • Different
  • Real

• We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Determine

• All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Human
  • Doing
  • Attracted

• I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • History
  • Action
  • Moral

• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • King
  • Loved

• Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Every thing was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • America
  • Fire

• You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Society
  • City
  • Violence

• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Brain
  • Human
  • Destiny