52 quotes found
“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
“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 p...”
“The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.”
“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 ...”
“A good head and a bad heart make a good politician”
“It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things--their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies.”
“Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are expe...”
“Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.”
“The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.”
“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”
“High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.”
“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written ...”
“A man's sexual organ is penis and woman's sexual organ is brains.”
“People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.”
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the fros...”
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
“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 t...”
“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 ...”
“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
“Intelligence is what we learn. Wisdom is what we unlearn.”
