Brain Quotes

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.

~ Mary E. Pearson

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked

~ Thomas Gilovich

We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . who often confuse their religion with their science.

~ John C. Eccles

The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce.

~ Raigon Stanley

For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.

~ Petek Kabakci

Sadly, the words reliable and accurate can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.

~ Dean Burnett

Everything you are is a feature of your brain, and as such much of what your brain does is dedicated to making you look and feel as good as possible. ]...] For example by modifying your memories to make you feel better about yourself.

~ Dean Burnett

One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be

~ Dean Burnett

I hate the honesty of the moring, the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the nasty shadows.

~ Scarlett Thomas

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In your life, everything revolves around your mind.

~ Saad Shah

Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All human experiences, from the feeling of love, to the presence of God emerge from various brain activity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation has also been proven scientifically to untangle and rewire the neurological pathways in the brain that make up the conditioned personality. Buddhist monks, for example, have had their brains scanned by scientists as they sat still in deep altered states of consciousness invoked by transcendental meditation and the scientists were amazed at what they beheld. The frontal lobes of the monks lit up as bright as the sun! They were in states of peace and happiness the scientists had never seen before. Meditation invokes that which is known in neuroscience as neuroplasticity; which is the loosening of the old nerve cells or hardwiring in the brain, to make space for the new to emerge. Meditation, in this sense, is a fire that burns away the old or conditioned self, in the Bhagavad Gita, this is known as the Yajna;“All karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.

~ Craig Krishna

Mind is not your brain, but mind is subtle clothing that is spread over your entire physical body and doesn’t limit itself only with the physical part of the brain.

~ Roshan Sharma

The brain is to mind as the eye is to sight.

~ Pearl Zhu

It's better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatrist for the same outburst of emotions later. Emotions are a bonding mechanism for humans. So, use ‘em, abuse ‘em and utilize ‘em.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

~ Pearl Zhu

When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. (Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.

~ Jay Kristoff

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

~ António R. Damásio

There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.

~ Abhijit Naskar

in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It’s not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It’s intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don’t know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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.

~ Emily Dickinson

Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain.

~ Toni Sorenson

The brain is a material thing, something you can hold in your hands. The mind is an immaterial thing, something only the Universe can hold.

~ Toni Sorenson

All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( Camera obscura of the mind )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Do not blame anyone if at last you don’t succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

~ Criss Jami

I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.

~ Criss Jami

Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the 'mind' can never be suppressed.

~ Deep Trivedi

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

~ Jeff Hawkins

the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.

~ Beth Morey

No production, no prosperity! Every product and service is someone's brain child... Ask yourself, when is my naming ceremony going to come on?. Begin producing something today and make a difference!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

~ Christian Jarrett

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

~ Steven Pinker

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

~ Israelmore Ayivor