Best 3808 quotes in «brain quotes» category

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

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.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Actually, now I don't even eat that much anymore. If you tried to follow me now, you'd be in trouble. You wouldn't be able to follow through on life during the day. You wouldn't focus. You'd get brain cramps, probably.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

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)

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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

Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

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.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!