Brains Quotes

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. (“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”)

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.

Brains think with words. Perhaps they need not. Supposedly if we had no words, we should still be able to think. But it is the nature of human brains that they think so much better with words than with any other medium – with mental pictures, for instance – that, words being available, we learn […]

If you had any brains, you’d be dangerous.

Your brain is like your stomach in the sense that if it’s empty, you’re willing to put anything in there to fill it up. (“Dilbert”)

You’ve got the brains of a four year old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.

The human brain is like a railroad freight car – guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

And this is only one of the differences between men’s and women’s brains. Another difference involves a brain part called the “cingulate gyrus,” which is the sector where emotions are located. The Reuters article does not describe the cingulate gyrus, but presumably in women it is a structure the size of a mature cantaloupe, containing […]

Brains are like hearts – they go where they are appreciated.