Brain Quotes

Most popular Brain quotes

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. - Robert Browning quote.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

head and heart

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson quote.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

leadership

A piece of brain the size of a grain of rice contains 1 million nerve cells, 10 billion synapses and 20 MILES of axons. Each of these nerve cells both 'hears from' and 'talks to' 10,000 other cells.
— Newsletter on Advances in Brain Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

mystery

Brains, on the whole, are like hearts, and they go where they are appreciated. - Robert McNamara quote.
Brains, on the whole, are like hearts, and they go where they are appreciated.

appreciation

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas.  Dizzy Gillespie's jazz.  Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children. - Diane Ackerman quote.
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas.  Dizzy Gillespie's jazz.  Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
The brain is a subservient organ to the gonads.
Brain, n.  An apparatus with which we think that we think. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Brain, n.  An apparatus with which we think that we think.
The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

mind

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside. - Emily Dickinson quote.
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quote.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. - Thomas Edison quote.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas Edison Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading
There is no female mind.  The brain is not an organ of sex.  As well speak of a female liver. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote.
There is no female mind.  The brain is not an organ of sex.  As well speak of a female liver.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. - Sydney Harris quote.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
The human brain is both a broadcasting and a receiving station. - Napoleon Hill quote.
The human brain is both a broadcasting and a receiving station.
More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. - Napoleon Hill quote.
More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.
Brain: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Brain: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

change

It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. - Tom Robbins quote.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The brain is like a muscle.  When it is in use we feel very good.  Understanding is joyous. - Carl Sagan quote.
The brain is like a muscle.  When it is in use we feel very good.  Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan Boca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise. - George Sand quote.
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one.  If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize. - H. G. Wells quote.
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one.  If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. - Virginia Woolf quote.
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. - Scott Adams quote.
Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. - Kurt Vonnegut quote.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standardization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen. - Alan Perlis quote.
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standardization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.