Thomas Huxley Quotes

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

The more I can get into my brain the more I can produce on the field.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

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

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Brains first and then Hard Work.