Brain Quotes - Page 14

• As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Crush, Perfume

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Cosmos

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Atoms

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blue, Sea, Sky

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “The Pocket Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Free Jazz

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hippie, Kissing, Sky

  Song: Purple Haze

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Real, Heart

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• I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

  Charles Portis

  Thieves, Grit, Mouths

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black

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• But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

  Aesop

  Beautiful, House, Actors

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

  L. Frank Baum

  Knows

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spirit, Poor, Amazed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1908). “Faust: Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem”

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• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  History Of Life, Intimate, External Forces

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• My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Air, Blood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Chains, Awake

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• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Important, Would Be

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.

  Pierre Jean George Cabanis

  Self, Order, Filters

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• Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing.

  Sydney Brenner

  Eye, Let It Go, Paper

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• It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.

  Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

  Development, Newton, Inches

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