Cerebral Quotes

“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.

Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
― Susan Cain

“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.”
― John Rachel, 12-12-12

“More than once, “Gsoh,” seems to be in confrontation with “Gsoh:” welfare at war with welfare, material and cerebral prerogatives at war. Gsoh, “Good Salary, own House,” may, however, make peace with “Gsoh,” “Good Sense of Humor.” A good mixture of substantial and mental qualities may not only lead to an excellent balance of the mind but also fill a nice basket of wittiness, as vital support in life. ("Should I shave first?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.”
― Leah Stewart, The History of Us

“Death is senseless yet it makes way for the living,”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.”
― Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well

“Perhaps the most exasperating cliche is about children being forced to memorize, not think. But memorization is not an abomination in itself, though the mnemic pressure on our species has dropped. Memorization is, de facto, exercise for the mind. Neuroscience shows an active hippocampus stimulates cerebral activity. We have often observed how the most profound and creative pupils are those who know the most things, though their usefulness is not always apparent. No question is more insinuating stupid than 'What good will it do to me?' In certain teaching contexts, it is not wrong to ask pupils to memorize. While it is not the only goal the idea that memorizing is useless since information is available online is also wrong and falsely self-obvious. It denotes a misunderstanding of how our mind works. Our brains are not computers, our memory can't be replaced by external HDDs. Each piece of info we memorize is integrated, albeit minimally, as living memory is active, while digital memory is passive. Strange as some may find it, memorizing can stimulate thinking as few other things can. What impairs thinking is the lack of the habit to reflect, the custom of stopping our mind's flow to go back to what we've learned.”
― Doru Căstăian

“I deal in the ideal—and that's an idea. Average people collect things, but I gather my thoughts, and my brain is my warehouse. But what about a duck? It has one word on its mind, quack, which is its answer to every question, so does that mean it's got the most efficiently organized cerebral cortex in the universe?”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.”
― Edward Anthony Spitzka

“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in the calm of a cloudless evening. Writing was not a hobby, but rather a personal need that you needed to have in order to feel whole.”
― Joseph Kutil

“During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia”
― Steven Magee

“Georgia attacked her dinner prep more aggressively than usual. As she saw it, there were two kinds of chefs. First, there were the cerebral types, who cooked with an intellectual, almost academic, bent. They cooked with precision and accuracy, studying a particular ingredient's effects in multiple settings before introducing it into their kitchen. These chefs loved the science of food. Fastidious in their pre-prep prep, they knew with 99 percent accuracy that a dish would turn out well. Then there were the chefs who worked from the heart. Who were furious when a dish fizzled, chopped angrily at the food as if it were their enemy, but on a good day could coax such sensuous, sublime flavors from a paltry potato and a handful of herbs that no diner would suspect its humble origins. When they hit, they hit big. But when they fell, it was like a sequoia cracking open in the redwood forest.”
― Jenny Nelson, Georgia's Kitchen

“Extreme weather in conjunction with Cerebral Hypoxia makes for a very dangerous driving experience when at high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee

“Workers on the 13,796' oxygen deficient summit of Mauna Kea did not use medical oxygen when driving cars to treat the potentially dangerous adverse mental effects of Cerebral Hypoxia.”
― Steven Magee

“Many years after regularly experiencing ‘Summit Brain’ atop Mauna Kea, I learned its real name was Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) with High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE).”
― Steven Magee

“Memory, Clodagh, is rather suspect in our conscious mind. People think they store memories in a particular way, that they don't change, but we're constantly updating our memory, or perception of it, creating layers, obscuring the original, until what we actually believe happened can differ dramatically from the truth.”
― Louise Phillips, The Doll's House

“Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Nuestros cerebros responden de forma inmediata cuando el caos irrumpe, mediante circuitos simples y extremadamente rápidos que funcionan desde la remota Antigüedad, cuando nuestros ancestros vivían en árboles y las serpientes podían atacar en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Here she began to question the validity of her memory, the way it struggled to reveal exact phrases and turns of syntax...It was only now that she examined these frayed edges, realizing that moments exist in limbo as they occur, as of yet unable to be determined as insignificant or definitive. Perhaps some of these moments were more definitive than others”
― Mandy Brownholtz, Rotten

“You can't simultaneously be the product of your environment and still choose your own destiny; your destiny was written in your bones before your existence, and bore you into your environment without asking you. Everything you've ever read, watched, listened to; it all seeps into your flesh and makes you the person you are, and if that makes you the person you are, it affects every 'choice' you make”
― Mandy Brownholtz, Rotten

“She noted the way little pieces of yourself fall off like trash, gum wrappers and fuzz you pick off a sweater. In the same way you accumulate memories, spots of time adhere to your surroundings like stray hairs and static electricity, so that you spot them in the corner of your eye and wilt, awash with the heady sentiments of recollection. This is the problem, Viv would realize, when you've stayed in one place for far too long.”
― Mandy Brownholtz, Rotten

“You are risking your life by inhaling helium gas.”
― Steven Magee

“Besides, there was a strangely calming element of cosmic beauty in the hypnotic landscape through which we climbed and plunged fantastically. Time had lost itself in the labyrinths behind, and around us stretched only the flowering waves of faery and the recaptured loveliness of vanished centuries—the hoary groves, the untainted pastures edged with gay autumnal blossoms, and at vast intervals the small brown farmsteads nestling amidst huge trees beneath vertical precipices of fragrant brier and meadow-grass. Even the sunlight assumed a supernal glamour, as if some special atmosphere or exhalation mantled the whole region. I had seen nothing like it before save in the magic vistas that sometimes form the backgrounds of Italian primitives. Sodoma and Leonardo conceived such expanses, but only in the distance, and through the vaultings of Renaissance arcades. We were now burrowing bodily through the midst of the picture, and I seemed to find in its necromancy a thing I had innately known or inherited, and for which I had always been vainly searching.”
― Lovecraft H.P

“I don’t remember when the questions started.”
― Shannen Greene, Similitude

“Like an unanswered question: a blank space under a burning, thought-provoking question---an absence of context. An absence of explanation. An absence of knowledge---an absence of understanding.”
― Shannen Greene, Similitude

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