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- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
- Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
- Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.
- Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
- Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
- This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
- Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
- Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain
- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
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