Brains Quotes

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Brain, n.: The apparatus with which we think that we think.

It is the common experience of mankind that in moments of great excitement the conscious mental processes of the brain no longer operate. All actions are subconscious, the result of habits. Troops whose training and discipline depend on conscious thought become helpless crowds in battle. To send forth such men is murder. Hence, in creating […]

Brain, v. (as in “to brain”): To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is not as efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain’s strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd […]

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.