#brain

Books, the children of the brain. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#brain #children

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff. ↗

— Jim Thome

#filling #i #like #lot #really

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#brain #choice #condition #i #learned

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#music #neuroscience #music

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#blood #brain #anger

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic. (229-230) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#brain-plasticity #healing-the-past #memories #change

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? ↗

— Joy Adamson

#brain #creatures #enough #fellow #fellow creatures

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#child #death #job #death

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity. ↗

— Zelda Popkin

#problem #stupidity #death

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe. ↗

— Ilchi Lee

#education