Quotes on Brain

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

But for the unquiet heart and brain_x000D_ _x000D_ A use in measured language lies;_x000D_ _x000D_ The sad mechanic exercise_x000D_ _x000D_ Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Lives not alone immured in the brain;_x000D_ _x000D_ But, with the motion of all elements,_x000D_ _x000D_ Courses as swift as thought in every power,_x000D_ _x000D_ And gives to every power a double power,_x000D_ _x000D_ Above their functions and their offices.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.