Heart And Brain Quotes

I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Of course I’m schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

…For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies.

In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.