Brain Quotes

Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think.

~ Rebecca A. Rogers

The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains the meaning of the obsolete word used for shuffle.

~ James Henry Breasted

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

~ Richard Edward Harding

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

~ Eben Alexander

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

~ Dale Dauten

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

~ Sophia Bush

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

~ Felix Dennis

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

~ Mike Birbiglia

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

~ Edward De Bono

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

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

~ Richard Lewis

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

~ Ridley Scott

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

~ Mary Lynn Rajskub

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

~ Rufus Wainwright

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

~ James Nesbitt

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

~ Jules Renard

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

~ Temple Grandin

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

~ Martin Mull

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

~ Michael Azerrad

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

~ Lewis Thomas

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

~ Joshua Roman

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

~ Tina Louise

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

~ Ben Carson

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

~ Doug Aitken

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

~ Clayton Christensen

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

~ Temple Grandin

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

~ Bill Maris

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

~ Ray Kurzweil

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

~ Stephen Hawking

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

~ Brian Eno

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

~ Gary Coleman

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

~ Claude Vorilhon

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

~ Albert Pike

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

~ Don Cheadle

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

~ Jacqueline Leo

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

~ Stanley B. Prusiner

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

~ Lewis Thomas

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson