Brain Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job.”
– Cormac McCarthy

“Women, however, actually utilize their brains when dealing with men. I know, it’s absurd. When a woman looks at a man she sees who he is, who he was, and who he could be. When a man sees a woman, he doesn’t see who she is, he sees what she is: a talking pair of tits. (Men don’t like talking asses).”
– Jarod Kintz

“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. “This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older,” Eagleman said–why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.”
– Burkhard Bilger

“There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals… We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as “tick-tock, tick-tock” – even though it is actually “tick tick, tick tick.”
– Oliver Sacks

“It is a question of cubic capacity,” said he; “a man with so large a brain must have something in it.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle

“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“No, honestly, my mouth shouldn’t be able to function unless my brain’s engaged.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn’t a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.”
– Siri Hustvedt

“… we have created a man with not one brain but two. … This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. … The patient‘s biological brain is the peripheral terminal — the only peripheral terminal — for the new computer. … And therefore the patient’s biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it.”
– Micheal Crichton

“New research into cognitive functioning—how the brain works—proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.”
– Carmine Gallo

“Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
– Criss Jami

“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”
– Walter de la Mare

“The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.”
– Steven Pinker

“I don’t believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a receiver of consciousness.”
– Graham Hancock

“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”
– David Eagleman

“[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is — at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the ‘point of view’ of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

“We become, neurologically, what we think.”(33)”
– Nicholas G. Carr

“A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds…this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can’t be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.”
– Micheal Crichton

“We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind.”
– Siri Hustvedt

“This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.”
– Jeff Lindsay

“…not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as “meaningful,” it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.”
– Daniel J. Siegel

“The distinction between diseases of “brain” and “mind,” between “neurological” problems and “psychological” or “psychiatric” ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem.”
– Antonio R. Damasio

“If the brain was simple enough to be understood – we would be too simple to understand it!”
– Minsky M.A.

“Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need.”
– Grant Morrison

“I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.”
– Peter Bognanni

“I usually like to interact with people who don’t speak until it’s necessary but I was intimidated by Carl’s physique. I didn’t feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn’t understand such people. I didn’t know what they wanted, or might do.”
– Max Barry

“The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about.”
– Eileen Cook

“I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of Doritos at a party”
– Megan Boyle

“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked”
– Thomas Gilovich

“Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.”
– Corneliu E. Giurgea

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