T Quotes
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“The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.”
“The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.”
“The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.”
Source: 10% Happier
“The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.”
Source: Change Your Brain
“The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.”
“The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.”
“The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.”
“The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.”
Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
“The brain is a wonderful thing. It will always give you an answer to the questions you ask. The problem comes from the questions you ask yourself. Your brain will only answer exactly what it is asked.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.”
“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it's piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it's ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it'll ever see it.”
Source: Unteachable
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it’ll ever see it. On the day I die, it’ll be calculating what to have for dinner as it bombards itself with pain signals from my amputated legs or my clocked-out heart.”
Source: Unteachable
“The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.”
“The brain is an organ, it also needs to be trained and nourished. Cultivate your mind.”
“The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon landings, the ultimate particles of the physicist and the depths of astronomical space.”
“The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.”
“The brain is closer to the skull.”
“The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.”
“The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.”
“The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.”
“The brain is in the body, and memories are in the brain. Are my memories therefore not physical extensions of me, and able to be frozen for all of eternity, so that someone in the future can dethaw them and laugh at all the jokes I once enjoyed?”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“The brain is just an escape”
“The Brain is just the weight of God--
For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--
And they will differ--if they do--
As Syllable from Sound”
Source: Dickinson
“The brain is like a good lawyer: given any set of interests to defend, it sets about convincing the world of their moral and logical worth, regardless of whether they in fact have any either. Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than for virtue.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“The brain is like a good lawyer: given any set of interests to defend, it sets about convincing the world of their moral and logical worth, regardless of whether they in fact have any of either. Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than for virtue.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
“The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.”
“The brain is more like a muscle and less like a storage area. If you really want to be a writer, you should want to write a lot. If you want to write a lot, then you need to be in training. You are preparing to run marathons, not emptying a suitcase. Learning new languages, acquiring new vocabulary, keeping yourself in various forms of constant logocentric discipline is one of the best things you can do. And language acquisition is nothing if not logocentric discipline.”
Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.”
“The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.”
“The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.”
“The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.”
“The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.”
Source: Q & A: A Novel
“the brain is not idle, passively receiving information, but produces perceptual expectations influencing how sensory information is ultimately interpreted”
Source: Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice
“The brain is not neutral; it is not a general-purpose device. It comes with a structure, and our understanding of the world is limited to what our brains can make sense of. Some of our thought is literal- framing our experience directly. But much of it is metaphoric and symbolic, structuring our experience indirectly but no less powerfully. Some of our mechanisms of understanding are the same around the world. But many are not, not even in our own country and culture.”
Source: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
“The brain is not neutral; it is not a general-purpose device. It comes with a structure, and our understanding of the world is limited to what our brains can make sense of. Some of our thought is literal- framing our experience directly. But much of it is metaphoric and symbolic, structuring our experience indirectly but no less powerfully. Some of our mechanisms of understanding are the same around the world. But many are not, not even in our own country and culture.
Our brains and minds work to impose a specific understanding on reality, and coming to grips with that can be scary, that not everyone understands reality in the same way. That fear has major political consequences. Since the brain mechanisms for understanding reality are mostly unconscious, and understanding of understanding itself becomes a political necessity.”
Source: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
“The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the "same nature", as the molecules of the brain”
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.”
“The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.”
“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”
“The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.”
“The brain is so wrong, all the time," she says, turning to the dark landscape again. "Wrong about what time it is, and who people are, and where home is: wrong wrong wrong. The lying brain.”
Source: Less
“The brain is the citadel of sense perception.”
“The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.”
“The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.”
“The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.”