Brain Quotations | Page 5

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.