Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

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.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

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

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

I love the human mind.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

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