Brain Quotes
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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
Charles G. Dawes
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
William Howard Taft
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
William Borah
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
Dave Parker
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Brains are no good if you don't use them.
Alexei Panshin
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The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the microscopist? Here is my opinion. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to Think with the eyes and see with the brain. Deep revelations into the nature of living things continue to travel on beams of light.
Daniel Mazia
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Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.
Bill Crawford
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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
George Foreman
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I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth.
Sarah Polley
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When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
Nikola Tesla
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After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
Bette Davis
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I understood that I had arrived there full of pride and realized that—in good faith, certainly, with affection—I had made that whole journey mainly to show her what she had lost and what I had won. But she had known from the moment I appeared, and now, risking tensions with her workmates, and fines, she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.
Elena Ferrante
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I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
Dan Mangan
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That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Alice Cooper
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
Daniel Wolpert
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Strain your brain more than your eye.
Thomas Eakins
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I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
Glen Campbell
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Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
Scott Adams
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I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
Eugene Jarvis
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
Herbert Spencer
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
Joanne Rowling
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Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift