Brain Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.”
– Antonio Damasio

“What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.”
– Antonio Damasio

“[It’s] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.”
– Shawn Achor

“Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.”
– Paul Zak

“Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it’s easy to cause people’s brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.”
– Paul Zak

“I am a movement chauvinist.”
– Daniel Wolpert

“There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn’t affect the way you’re going to move later in life.”
– Daniel Wolpert

“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only — and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements.”
– Daniel Wolpert

“You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that’s completely wrong.”
– Daniel Wolpert

“Do we actually think beauty, or do we feel it?”
– Richard Seymour

“[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else’s mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.”
– Mark Pagel

“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”
– Mark Pagel

“Boys’ brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they’re totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.”
– Philip Zimbardo

“We only see mirror images of ourselves, and we only see ourselves in freeze-frame photographic images that capture a mere fraction of the time that we live.”
– Iain Hutchison

“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

“The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.”
– Edith Widder

“There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you’re actually quite literally connected by your neurons.”
– Vilayanur Ramachandran

“There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.”
– Vilayanur Ramachandran

“Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. … It’s as though this neuron is adopting the other person’s point of view.”
– Vilayanur Ramachandran

“About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.”
– Oliver Sacks

“Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.”
– Oliver Sacks

“All of imagination — everything that we think, we feel, we sense — comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.”
– Jay Walker

“What is it that really makes us, us? It’s our collective intelligence. It’s our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”
– Louise Leakey

“The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.”
– Kwabena Boahen

“The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.”
– Jonathan Haidt quoting scientist Gary Marcus

“I realized, ‘Oh my gosh! I’m having a stroke! I’m having a stroke!’ The next thing my brain says to me is, ‘Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?’”
– Jill Bolte Taylor

“In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman’s body.”
– Jill Bolte Taylor

“Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information … explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.”
– Jill Bolte Taylor

“Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.”
– Vilayanur Ramachandran on the human brain

“Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time — toward the same object, the same person — want to harm and want to do good.”
– Matthieu Ricard

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