Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

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?

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.

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

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.

If you're only using 10 percent of your brain, you don't even know that you're using 10 percent of your brain. If you're only using 10 percent of something, that means you don't know the rest of the 90!

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

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

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

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

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Squirrel brains make you smart.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.