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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
— Albert Einstein
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. ”
— Dr Seuss
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
— Albert Einstein
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
— Mark Twain
“The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.”
— Corliss Lamont
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
— Pablo Picasso
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
— Pablo Picasso
“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”
— Dalai Lama
“But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“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
“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. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“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.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“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. ”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“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. ”
— Dr Seuss
“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. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“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.”
— Helen Keller
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
— Maya Angelou
“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.”
— Rudyard Kipling
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
— Michelangelo
“I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.”
— Groucho Marx
“My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.”
— Dolly Parton
“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.”
— Keith Richards
“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.”
— Richard Dawkins
“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?”
— Richard Dawkins
“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.”
— Francis Bacon
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
— Carl Sagan
“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Books, the children of the brain.”
— Jonathan Swift
“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?”
— Virginia Woolf
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