Timothy Leary Quotes

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.

If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.