- Quotations on BRAIN
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- The brain recalls just what the muscles grope for; no more, no less.
- Faulkner, William Absolom, Absolom
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- Conversation becomes intolerable when you are with men whose brain is full of
boxes where everything is stowed away in order and nothing external can enter. Let us bear
hospitable hearts and minds.
- Joubert
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- The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.
- Kall
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- The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision.
- Kall
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- In fear, the brain starves the heart of its bravest blood.
- Kall
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- It is the heart and not the brain
- That to the highest doth attain.
- Longfellow, The Building of the Ship
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- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
- Montaigne
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- A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
- Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
- There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
- And drinking largely sobers us again.
- Pope, Essay on Criticism
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- You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
- Will Rogers
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- To breath the air, how delicious!
- To speak, to walk, to seize something by the hand!...
- To be this incredible God I am!..
- O amazement of things, even the last particle!
- O spirituality of things!
- I too carol the Sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting;
- I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the
earth....
- Walt Whitman
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- "If a man treats life artistically, his brain is in his heart."
- Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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- Empty heads,-- heads without ideas in the wholesome variety and sufficient number to
furnish food for the mental clockwork,-- ill regulated heads, where the faculties are not
under the control of the will,-- these are the ones that hold the brains which
their owners are so apt to tamper with, by introducing the appliances we have been talking
about (alcohol, bad habits) Now, when a gentleman's brain is empty or
ill-regulated, it is, to a great extent, his own fault; and so it is simple retribution,
that, while he lies slothfully sleeping or aimlessly dreaming, the fatal habit settles on
him like a vampire and sucks his blood, fanning him all the while with its hot wings into
deeper slumber or idler dreams!
- Holmes, O.W.THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
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- The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
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- The brain may devise laws for the blood;
- but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
- Shakespeare
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- I have a heart of mettle apt as yours,
- But yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage."
- Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus
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- Some strange commotion
- Is in his Brain: He bites his lip and starts:
- Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
- Then lays his finger on his temple; straight,
- Springs out into fast gait; then, stops again,
- Strikes his breast hard; and anon, he casts
- His eye aginst the Moon; in most strange postures
- We have seen him set himself.
- Shakespeare
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- Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
- Barbara Jordan
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- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not
stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost
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- To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the
reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a
measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the
surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced
awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit
philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the
victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born -- the beneficiary
inasmuch as language gives access to he accumulated records of other people's experience,
the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only
awareness and as it be-devils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his
concepts for data, his words for actual things.
- Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception
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- An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
- --English Proverb
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- When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
- --Anonymous
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- I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by
reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the
best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by
lifting others.
- --Robert Green Ingersoll
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- I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
- --Woodrow Wilson
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- A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
- --Thomas Fuller
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- The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most
brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents
of his associates.
- --W. Alton Jones
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- No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
- --Thomas L. Masson
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- For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
- --Robert Louis Stevenson
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- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has
been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
- -- Albert Einstein
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- Shocking as though it sounds, a relatively small amount of touch deprivation alone
caused brain damage, which was often displayed in the monkeys as aberrant behavior.
- Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses
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- So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds
its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. The victim begins to shrink
spiritually; he develops a fancy for parlours with a regulated temperature. To be overwise
is to ossify;
- and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
- --R.L. Stevenson
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- No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
- --Thomas L. Masson
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- An enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always
a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one.
- Sir Charles Sherrington, describing the brain
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- DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
- TO SAVE A MINUTE
- YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
- YOUR BRAIN IS IN IT
- --Burma-Shave
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- The large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple
way.
- --Donald Hebb
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- The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of
the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
- Somerset Maugham
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- My brain: It's my second favorite organ.
- Woody Allen, from movie Sleeper
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- ...in psychotherapy, we study the "secretions" of the human brain, coming out
of the patient's mouth in the form of words.
- Andrew Salter, Conditioned Refex Therapy
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