A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.
—Llewelyn Powys
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
—Edward De Bono
It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg.
—Tom Robbins
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.
—Will Cuppy
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
—Tom Robbins
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
—E. F. Schumacher
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
—Thomas A. Edison
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
—Ambrose Bierce
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
—Aesop
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
—Ambrose Bierce
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
—Diane Ackerman
Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling.
—George Jessel
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
—Harper's Index
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
—Robert Frost