Quotes About Brains

History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment.

The urge to communicate is even stronger than the sex drive," Trapp said. "Why do you think people gossip so much? Why can't we keep secrets? Why have we invented the printing press, the telephone, the Internet? It's so ideas can grow and reproduce. Our bodies, our brains, are just machines that ideas use for a while, then toss aside when they wear out.

I've got lots of brains, said Wombat. You listen to them rattle. He shook his head and it rattled beautifully.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

The tavalai were always hard to hate. Some managed it, but those were always the people with too much emotion and not enough brains. Officers like that are dangerous, they got their people killed. I didn't want to be like them.

All species had some degree of xenophobia hardwired into their brains, even toward aliens they'd come to like. But just as one couldn't be brave in the absence of fear, neither could one be tolerant in the absence of genuine difference.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

The truth was this: I did not have the brains.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

There is no question that modern life carries burdens incompatible with the brains we have evolved. Depression may, then, well be a consequence of our doing what we did not evolve to do.

But she thought the men's brains had turned to jelly. They couldn't see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason.

Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm us. Our perceptions are wondrously flexible, transforming our worldview automatically and continuously until we find safe harbor in a comfortable delusion.

If you ask a billionaire the secret of his success, he might say it is passion, because that sounds like a sexy answer that is suitably humble. But after a few drinks I think he'd say his success was a combination of desire, luck, hard work, determination, brains, and appetite for risk. So forget about passion when you're planning your path to success.

The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like this. I don't know if I can explain myself, but I used to use my brains as far as they went, and after they came to a blank wall I guessed, and I usually found my guesses pretty right.

The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has leapt into most of our bloodstreams and brains.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!… O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are in the giant minority.

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.