Top 100 To Brain Quotes

#1. Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

Leonard Mlodinow

To Brain Quotes #402602
#2. Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.

Peter J. Richerson

To Brain Quotes #407451
#3. The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin to map the complexity of our lives, or how we each affect others.

Dee Williams

To Brain Quotes #466770
#4. You might one day be able to send the experience of dancing the tango, bungee jumping, or skydiving to the people on your e-mail list. Not just physical activity, but emotions and feelings as well might be sent via brain-to-brain communication.

Michio Kaku

To Brain Quotes #539299
#5. I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Dalai Lama

To Brain Quotes #572127
#6. Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have
forget sex
because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.

Douglas Coupland

To Brain Quotes #633240
#7. When it comes to brain health issues, many of our children are as vulnerable today as children a hundred years ago were to infectious diseases. Far

Sue Klebold

To Brain Quotes #864716
#8. Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.

David Perlmutter

To Brain Quotes #936557
#9. There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?

Philip Yancey

To Brain Quotes #1158261
#10. Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Ambrose Bierce

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#11. You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days."
Erak to Halt.

John Flanagan

To Brain Quotes #1496700
#12. It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.

Deji Olukotun

To Brain Quotes #1715217
#13. - ... And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers?
- They're always watched
- But not locked in? The honor is specific to me?
- You did try to brain me.

Sophie Jordan

To Brain Quotes #1759972
#14. While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished.

Michael Gazzaniga

To Brain Quotes #1785025
#15. I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

Sarah Silverman

To Brain Quotes #1175
#16. I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Amy Hardie

To Brain Quotes #2586
#17. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Henry David Thoreau

To Brain Quotes #5447
#18. Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain damaged from the early sun.

Kim Harrison

To Brain Quotes #9105
#19. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.

Anne Frank

To Brain Quotes #10523
#20. Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, the brain and the immune system.

Karol K. Truman

To Brain Quotes #11264
#21. Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Joel Edgerton

To Brain Quotes #13253
#22. The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

Clarence Darrow

To Brain Quotes #14759
#23. You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I've had to find ways to make it sexy for myself.

Lena Dunham

To Brain Quotes #20144
#24. My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Max Barry

To Brain Quotes #22268
#25. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Helen Keller

To Brain Quotes #23815
#26. Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.

Daniel Levitin

To Brain Quotes #26722
#27. I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

Joe Mays

To Brain Quotes #32835
#28. You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Yoshida Kenko

To Brain Quotes #33138
#29. It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Jonathan Ames

To Brain Quotes #34685
#30. I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

Blake Mills

To Brain Quotes #49216
#31. Okay, time to play doctor."
Her entire body quivered, sending "yes please" vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. "Sure, if I can be the doctor."
His mouth curved. "I'm willing to take turns, but me first.

Jill Shalvis

To Brain Quotes #51538
#32. Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

African Spir

To Brain Quotes #52856
#33. My brain is sending poison to my heart.

John Irving

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#34. Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Lyall Watson

To Brain Quotes #54072
#35. Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Eric Metaxas

To Brain Quotes #54668
#36. No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton

To Brain Quotes #56099
#37. I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
- Emo Phillips

Stella Atrium

To Brain Quotes #56216
#38. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.

Magnus Flyte

To Brain Quotes #59890
#39. While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn't it lovely to say, "He/She suffers of Poetry?".

Ioana-Cristina Casapu

To Brain Quotes #60880
#40. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

Dalai Lama

To Brain Quotes #62954
#41. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Laini Taylor

To Brain Quotes #64255
#42. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

Annie Dillard

To Brain Quotes #66654
#43. I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Cherry Jones

To Brain Quotes #68518
#44. In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

Bjarke Ingels

To Brain Quotes #74210
#45. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.

H.G.Wells

To Brain Quotes #78836
#46. Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.

Black Thought

To Brain Quotes #81325
#47. Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

Jeffrey Kluger

To Brain Quotes #81511
#48. Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M

Isaac Marion

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#49. There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

Danica McKellar

To Brain Quotes #96897
#50. Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Chuck Hogan

To Brain Quotes #98486
#51. If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Philippa Perry

To Brain Quotes #100578
#52. If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

Shelley Long

To Brain Quotes #104215
#53. I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

Allison Winn Scotch

To Brain Quotes #108456
#54. Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells?

S.L. Jennings

To Brain Quotes #110307
#55. It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Norman Tebbit

To Brain Quotes #111693
#56. The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

Ayn Rand

To Brain Quotes #111855
#57. The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

David Eagleman

To Brain Quotes #113454
#58. 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

To Brain Quotes #119913
#59. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

Blake Butler

To Brain Quotes #120060
#60. Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.

John Cena

To Brain Quotes #120297
#61. When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To Brain Quotes #124548
#62. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Chris Hardwick

To Brain Quotes #125334
#63. Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be "born again" before it is believed.

Shannon L. Alder

To Brain Quotes #132872
#64. The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.

Steven Magee

To Brain Quotes #132910
#65. My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Dana Spiotta

To Brain Quotes #135425
#66. I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."
"Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Brandon Sanderson

To Brain Quotes #136174
#67. Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

John Dramani Mahama

To Brain Quotes #137303
#68. Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it's not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But your
heart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

Marie Coulson

To Brain Quotes #137855
#69. Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

Aeschylus

To Brain Quotes #138790
#70. By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

William Grey Walter

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#71. A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

Toni Sorenson

To Brain Quotes #141718
#72. When you don't want to be somewhere and there is no way to get your body out of the situation, your brain sometimes packs a bag and thumbs a ride anywhere it can go.

Anne Applegate

To Brain Quotes #149577
#73. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

Gordon Dahlquist

To Brain Quotes #151074
#74. I am so looking forward to seeing the back of you two," Kent pipes up behind me.
"Excuse me?" I spin around to face him.
"Baby. Babe." He mimics our voices, slapping a hand against his forehead. "I swear all your mushy talk has actually irreparably damaged my brain.

Siobhan Davis

To Brain Quotes #154109
#75. If somebody has a question, they only have to ask one of us because we share a brain. We seriously have never said something different than the other one.

Jillian Bell

To Brain Quotes #158738
#76. All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub

John Green

To Brain Quotes #159256
#77. Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'

Ann Leckie

To Brain Quotes #160185
#78. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

To Brain Quotes #161282
#79. Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

Kris Kidd

To Brain Quotes #162111
#80. Some self-control, he continued his lesson for Sir Asshole. "Then the endorphins kicked in to the point where she could no longer engage her brain to make the decision to speak her safeword." He glanced

Kallypso Masters

To Brain Quotes #163528
#81. There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. They must reflect quite different aspects of brain function. The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions.

Susanna Kaysen

To Brain Quotes #164622
#82. Psychologists figured that the memory center was located in the left brain, and the imagination engine in the right brain. Therefore people unconsciously glanced to the left when they were remembering things, and to the right when they were making stuff up. When

Lee Child

To Brain Quotes #166916
#83. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

Grimes

To Brain Quotes #169734
#84. Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

Rajneesh

To Brain Quotes #172009
#85. 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

To Brain Quotes #172389
#86. In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

Robert Genn

To Brain Quotes #173309
#87. The beautiful man-boy that held my heart in his memories, who claimed my soul with his smile. I knew that if I kept looking in those deadly eyes, I'd sink into their infinite depths, lost forever. And something in my brain, in my heart, allowed that to be okay.

T. Torrest

To Brain Quotes #173625
#88. I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik's artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that's all fake heart and no brain is what's commonly called a "politician," and must be destroyed.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

To Brain Quotes #175485
#89. Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

Hippocrates

To Brain Quotes #178662
#90. It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body

Meryl Streep

To Brain Quotes #191365
#91. If I used a higher percentage of my brain I wouldn't of had to ride on the short bus.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

To Brain Quotes #191761
#92. Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

Charles Duhigg

To Brain Quotes #202805
#93. A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells ... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

Tony Hoare

To Brain Quotes #206157
#94. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. Custom had dinned into his ears

H.P. Lovecraft

To Brain Quotes #210317
#95. I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone ... I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

Steve Wozniak

To Brain Quotes #214186
#96. I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

P.G. Wodehouse

To Brain Quotes #219396
#97. After the debacle of the party, debugging the code running in his own brain was bliss. His body lay safely in his bed. His mind exulted inside the Nexus development environment, tracing the events that had led to the fault. Here he was in his element.

Ramez Naam

To Brain Quotes #223750
#98. Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.

Richard Tuttle

To Brain Quotes #224949
#99. It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

Billy Collins

To Brain Quotes #225227
#100. I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Don DeLillo

To Brain Quotes #230717

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