brain quotes

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. ”

“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.”

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. ”

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. ”

“I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. ”

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”

Brain quotes - A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.”

“My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.”

“Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.”

“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.”

“I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?”

“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”

“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.”

“Books, the children of the brain.”

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”

“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”

“I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.”

“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”

Brain quotes - By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

Brain quotes - See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

Brain quotes - The brain is wider than the sky.

“The brain is wider than the sky.”

Brain quotes - You can't process me with a normal brain.

“You can't process me with a normal brain.”