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“A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.”
“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.”
“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
“We all want to be happier, more financially secure and to experience more rewarding relationships. We all dream of making something more of our lives. A mountain trail is a terrific place to make o...”
“Brain waves are like personal handwriting.”
“The brain waves of ordinary people during insight experiences are unique. Their brains are in special states.”
“Its a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the un...”
“I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”
“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”
“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and ...”
“Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like...”
“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which th...”
“...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.”
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phen...”
“The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce.”
“Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.”
“Everything you are is a feature of your brain, and as such much of what your brain does is dedicated to making you look and feel as good as possible. ]...] For example by modifying your memories to...”
“One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be”
