Brain Quotes

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Education is basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon.

Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.

Every time I speak I want the truth to come out. Every time I speak I want a shiver. I don't want them to be like they know what I'm gonna say because it's polite. I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world or I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee you that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Why is thought being a secretion of brain, more wonderful than gravity a property of matter? It is our arrogance, our admiration of ourselves.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.