Brains Quotes - page 2

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)
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Some people insist that "mediocre” is better than "best.” They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah! View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. View quote
Michael Shermer
Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so? View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out. View quote
Richard Wilbur
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. View quote
Margot Asquith
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both. View quote
Erwin Rommel
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains. View quote
Eduard Shevardnadze
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. (Albert Szent-Györgyi)
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things” now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone. View quote
Emil Cioran
Most people keep their brains between their legs. View quote
Morrissey
Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em. View quote
Mae West
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. View quote
L. Frank Baum
It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly. View quote
L. Frank Baum
According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence. (Steven Pinker)
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence. View quote
Upton Sinclair
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! - that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms - nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss? View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Brains are no good if you don't use them. View quote
Alexei Panshin