Top 100 Brain Understand Quotes
#1. Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
David H. Hubel
#2. Why doesn't my stupid brain understand that I always wanted to be you? No you; no,no..you.Hey,you! now what are you smiling at.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#3. Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. You really don't understand the first thing about writing ... for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
Cornelia Funke
#5. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss Jami
#6. What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.
Tom Wujec
#7. If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all.
Jostein Gaarder
#9. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.
John Assaraf
#10. I understand that to be strong, your mind has to be strong and focused. It has to heal just like your body had to heal. The mind is a very peculiar thing. Your brain has a way of protecting itself and you from devastation
Maya Banks
#11. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
Amie Kaufman
#12. You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.
Harper Lee
#13. The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.
John Assaraf
#14. There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#15. The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart
Viktor Schauberger
#16. The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
#17. You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.
Matt Ridley
#18. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
Timothy Leary
#19. In terms I hope you'll understand, darling, in fairytales, the prince vanquishes the wicked queen. The evil stepmother. The malicious goblin. In real life, Daisy, to avenge wrong done to his princess, if the need arises, the prince puts a bullet in somebody's brain.
Kristen Ashley
#20. An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
Dee Hock
#21. Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for
something your brain is not equipped to fully understand.
God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chair
you are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something you
will never understand.
Scott Adams
#22. Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.
Richard Restak
#23. If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. There is more information in one thimble of reality
than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is
beyond the human brain to understand the world and its
environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified
illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.
Scott Adams
#25. I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
John Gurdon
#26. Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.
Alexandra Robbins
#27. The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.
David Brooks
#28. Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#29. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
Silas House
#30. Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.
Isak Dinesen
#31. It could be simply an accident of fate that our brains are too weak to understand themselves. Think of the lowly giraffe, for instance, whose brain is obviously far below the level required for self-understanding - yet it is remarkably similar to our brain.
Ray Kurzweil
#32. You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.
Harlan Coben
#33. The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.
John Eccles
#34. Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
V.S. Ramachandran
#35. What happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".
John Assaraf
#36. Strive to understand someone before you jump to judgment about them.
Toni Sorenson
#37. From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
Deepak Chopra
#38. If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.
Sebastian Seung
#39. In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
Aloe Blacc
#40. Before operating on a patient's brain, I realized, I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
Paul Kalanithi
#41. From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
Martin Rees
#42. One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
Eric Kandel
#43. On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
Kirsten Vangsness
#44. Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
Aleister Crowley
#45. Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
#46. The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.
Gerd Sommerhoff
#47. Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It's imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.
Toni Sorenson
#49. It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
Francis Crick
#50. I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.
Julius Rosenwald
#51. Often," she said, "physical ailments drive the mental. The brain is an organ, after all. Someday, people will understand that better and stop treating mental disorders as if they're this untouchable entity separated from the biological, like an ugly secret hiding beneath our skulls.
Anne McAneny
#52. If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson
#53. I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.'
'You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
Veronica Roth
#54. When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.
Robert Anthony
#55. Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.
T.A. Cline
#56. Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.
Matt Mills
#57. It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
Alexandre Desplat
#58. I'm just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.
Buck Brannaman
#59. The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.
Thomas R. Insel
#60. The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.
Pete Docter
#61. If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
Emerson M. Pugh
#62. The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.
Rick Warren
#63. If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.
Toni Sorenson
#64. I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.
Corin Tucker
#65. Your brain does not understand what you are capable of. There is way more inside of you than you can imagine.
Craig Groeschel
#66. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Eben Alexander
#67. 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
#68. Once again, when you fully understand the neural circuitry of the brain's reward center to seek survival and emotional rewards, it becomes easier to see how diets are part of the problem, and by themselves are never the solution.
Scott Abel
#69. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#70. People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.
Harry Bernstein
#71. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.
Karin Slaughter
#72. If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!
Minsky M.A.
#73. Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.
Jeff Hawkins
#74. Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't.
Patrick Downes
#75. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.
Toni Sorenson
#76. I didn't know what was going on, didn't understand a bit of it, didn't like any of it. Maybe that's why the first thing I packed was my guns. If your brain won't work, wave a gun around. Sometimes that helps.
James Crumley
#77. I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
Uma Thurman
#78. To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.
Sebastian Seung
#79. You don't understand. My brain consists of large, snowy mountains, and you just caused an avalanche.
David A. Rodriguez
#80. The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential.
Ilchi Lee
#81. 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
#82. When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.
Lorraine Toussaint
#83. The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.
Colin Blakemore
#84. It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea. Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I'll ever understand.
Ayn Rand
#85. I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself
Chris Cleave
#86. But until now I did not understand; everything was in a sort of mist. And I believe it all arose from believing that the brain is in the head. It's not so at all; it comes with the wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea.
Nikolai Gogol
#87. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. The day I understand what's going on in her psychotic little brain they'll have to lock me in a psych ward.
J. Gabriel Gates
#89. It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.
Oliver Heaviside
#90. I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.
Eric Kandel
#91. Somewhere, within our brain, we have a potential for higher mathematics, complex physics, art, & amazing richness of thoughts, feelings & sensations Somewhere within our brain we have a potential to understand the Magic of Creative Thinking
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#92. My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past
Munia Khan
#93. I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.
Rick Warren
#94. When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.
John Assaraf
#95. A human brain is encased in a skull and each human exists in separete body so it seems like there is always going to be a feeling of disconnect. One human being will never completely understand what another human is thinking or feeling
Gabby Bess
#96. The thing you'll never understand is that it doesn't matter how much information you put in your brain. It's about what you do with the information you have.
Danielle Paige
#97. Mind is not a product of brain rather an integral part of the soul, our eternal being. Those who understand this truth can think beyond the material reality and move to higher states of consciousness.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#98. Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.
Brendan Iribe
#99. Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Jules Verne
#100. To be honest, as a species we may not live long enough to ever understand the true reality of the universe. But as the foundation of consciousness lies within the domain of biology one day we shall know all there is to know about it.
Abhijit Naskar
