Brain Quotes
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Gerald Scarfe
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
Scott Adams
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.
Diane Ackerman
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
Walt Whitman
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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
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The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
Andrew B. Newberg
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Ray Bradbury
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
Benjamin Carson
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In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.
Terence McKenna
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I try to pick his brain as much as I can. Any chance I get, I try to talk to him.
Brian Dopirak
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
Raymond Kelly
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
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If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.
Sebastian Faulks
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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Seth MacFarlane
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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.
Evan Davis
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
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A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
Humphrey Bogart
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I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear.
Michel Gondry
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I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.
Ned Vizzini
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It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.
Terry Bradshaw
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the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.
Raquel Welch
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The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
Terence McKenna