Brain Intelligence Quotes

#1. You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity - all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk - if you listen to your intuition

Gavin De Becker

#2. Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

William Feather

#3. At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

Timothy Leary

#4. Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#5. In the far reaches of her brain a storehouse of demeaning events evidently opened a door for Extra Sensory Perception experiences to enter.

Judy Byington

#6. Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.

Ed Strachar

#7. Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...

Vann Chow

#8. It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. The brain is your emotional cockpit. Lots of buttons and levers. Best to learn how to steer responsibly.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#10. A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

James Agee

#11. There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

Joel Kinnaman

#12. The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

Judy Woodruff

#13. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

Criss Jami

#14. Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

Storm Jameson

#15. Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.

Carl Sagan

#16. Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

Toni Sorenson

#17. 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.

Carl Sagan

#18. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

Doc Childre

#20. And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, it was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis ... . But

Arthur C. Clarke

#21. As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse.

Carl Sagan

#22. There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#23. There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Dolly Parton

#24. The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Joe Haldeman

#25. Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

Carl Sagan

#26. The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

Alexander Blok

#27. Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions - say 10 percent - of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.

Carl Sagan

#28. Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Criss Jami

#29. Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

Louis Auguste Blanqui

#30. According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

Steven Pinker

#31. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

Nancy Kline

#32. The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

David Amerland

#33. I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.

Peter Bognanni

#34. I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Theodore Roosevelt

#35. To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.
To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.

Debasish Mridha

#36. It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones.

Carl Sagan

#37. If there are as many connections in your brain as there are stars in the universe, why ask for superpowers?

Clementine Beauvais

#38. I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.

Dave Asprey

#39. This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

P.G. Wodehouse

#40. Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Shawn Achor

#41. The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Paul Gauguin

#42. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

#43. No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

Michio Kaku

#44. Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Piet Mondrian

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

Howard Gardner

#46. One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

Marissa Mayer

#47. #36: ... Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?

Philip K. Dick

#48. Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

C.S. Lewis

#49. Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will
one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

Carl Sagan

#50. Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

Karl Brandt

#51. Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can
experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all
knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#52. We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Stephen Hawking

#53. She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

Dennis Lehane

#54. The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#55. In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.

Martin Rees

#56. I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

John Steinbeck

#57. If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

#58. There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.

Arthur C. Clarke

#59. Because the brain models our sense of self as just another instance of a thing, it is easy for us to project qualities that we only know of from our own minds into other objects. This allows us to imagine intelligence in a rock, a tree, an animal or even a politician.

Sean Hastings

#60. God #1 is the Single-cell Intelligence, the collaborative brain that knows how to run a simple protozoan. The First God is the one-celled God. The First and original craft of God is Protozoan.

Timothy Leary

#61. There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...

Ouida

#62. We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#63. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Michael Foley

#64. To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Deepak Chopra

#65. Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

Jaggi Vasudev

#66. Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Henry George Bohn

#67. When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

Paul Frank Baer

#68. We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

#69. She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Bram Stoker

#70. The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Daniel Goleman

#71. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Allen

#72. Adron always had a thing for expensive ho's with the intelligence of backwash. You look like you actually have both a brain and a soul. (Zarina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

Ramez Naam

#74. Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt their presence here and there in his brain, like pockets of poison, harmless as long as you left them encysted and did not prick them.

Fritz Leiber

#75. The brain can think, but the heart knows better. So follow your instincts, follow your inner feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

Nick Begich

#77. Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

#78. 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

#79. Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

Esther Hicks

#80. The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

Arika Okrent

#81. IQ is a statistical method for quantifying specific kinds of problem-solving ability, mathematically convenient but not necessarily corresponding to a real attribute of the human brain, and not necessarily representing whatever it is that we mean by 'intelligence'.

Ian Stewart

#82. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.

Sally Fryer Dietz

#83. I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)

Robert Anton Wilson

#84. The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Malcolm Forbes

#85. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

#86. The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Lorraine Hansberry

#87. I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#88. Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and
intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Daniel G. Amen

#89. There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#90. Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.

Jaggi Vasudev

#91. Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale may be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.

Philippe Grandjean

#92. I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Agatha Christie

#93. Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#94. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Carl Sagan

#95. 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

#96. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha