Brain Quotes

"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." ~ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum "To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces." ~ The Adventure of the Devil's Foot by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. ~ The Professor at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear. ~ The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Ah, me! it's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all." ~ The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them." ~ The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities." ~ The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?" ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time." ~ Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins