Quotes – auteurs (L t/m Z)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t. – Lyall Watson
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery – Mark Amidon
There are three different kinds of brains, the one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, and the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others. The first kind is most excellent, the second kind also excellent, but the third useless. – Niccolo Machiavelli
We can show that each of the 10 billion neurons in the human brain has the possibility of connections to 1 with 28 noughts after it – that’s – 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 connections! It means that the total combinations in the brain, if written out, would be 1 followed by 10.5 kilometers of noughts! – Prof Petr Anokhin
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world. – Robert Cooper
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. – Robert Frost
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
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body’s energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body’s weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense. – Susan Blakemore
If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? – Van Morrison
You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles. – Will Rogers
I have a heart of mettle apt as yours, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage. – William Shakespeare
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree. – William Shakespeare
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. – William James
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