No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion...

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values … and a heart.

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it’s like they say, if you’re not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven’t turned establishment by 30, you’ve got...

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live– undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon...

[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re reconstructive. Memory works a...

People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.

I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people’s brains, could take...

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Pooh hasn’t much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There’s Owl. Owl hasn’t exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There’s Rabbit. He hasn’t Learnt in Books, but he can always Think...

To get him to agree, I put a gun to his head. To get him to not change his mind, I blew out his brains.

I was asked why I seek depth when I look at people, then I answered: Because my brain is beyond my eyes.

Son, you never know who will step up with the brains and talent in a time of need and be the right one for the job.

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed “the squirrel brain” are given over to one thought: food.The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.

…you don’t have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.

I had a dream about you. You gained weight, but I didn’t mind because all the extra poundage went straight to your brain. You told me the meaning of life, but I was too skinny to comprehend.

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;–and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,–then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?

You know, surprisingly, they don’t sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

I’m collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need...

Atlantis?’ Jason asked.’That’s a myth,’ Percy said.’Uh…don’t we deal in myths?”No, I mean it’s a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.”So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?

She’s beautiful, but she’s also got brains. I’ll bet zombies would love to eat out of her skull like a bowl of Jell-O that had an IQ of 180—which is absurd, because the last bowl of Jell-O I ate only measured in with an IQ of 123. Still, an IQ of 123 is more than...

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

If zombies eat brains, then they’d love me, because who doesn’t like a buffet?

The website didn’t say how much brains–or even how many–I should eat, only that I should eat them in 48 hours OR ELSE. Why doesn’t anyone pay attention to details anymore? Would it be so hard to add a simple line like, BTW, Maddy, 3 pounds of brains per week is plenty?Seriously, am I the...

What I love about her is she makes dreams more understandable. There is so much we don’t understand in this world…we only use 10 percent of our brains. There’s 90 percent where we just don’t understand (things) … working with Susan, we’re using some of that 90 percent.

Een geboorte of een huwelijk mag dan een belangrijke gebeurtenis zijn, maar het garandeert geen plaats in het geheugen.’ De hersens, een zeef.’Knoop dat in uw oren: niets is zeker. Zeker is niets.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I’ve got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don’t...

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.

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.