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- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
- I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations
- A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
- Dutch Proverb
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
- Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
- J. G. C. Brainard
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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