cerebral capacity Quotes

You discover your brain is a powerful tool, something that is so powerful that sometimes you are surprised by the outcomes, how quickly it adapts to situations and how quickly you learn.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

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.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

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

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.