Dalai Lama Quotes

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

We have our own brains.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!