…our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.
– Valentino Braitenberg
Related Quotes:
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. – Samuel Johnson
- Best timepass for idle person is to find another and gossip, without realising that there are superlative degrees of idle, idler, and idlest. – Sandeep Sahajpal
- People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. – Leo Rosten
- Even if you communicate sincerely and your intentions are upright, if people don’t have trust, they speculate your every move… – Assegid Habtewold
- Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it…and even more to live it. – Criss Jami
- So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don’t hold on to them the sea will take them too. – Rachel Cusk
- theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body – Ken M
- I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose. – Vladimir Lorchenkov
- Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life? – Serena Valentino
- Being a Queen will Always be in Style! – Anya Valentino
- These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
- Knowing your feelings won’t change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. – Marlene Chism
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Jr
- Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
- Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded. – Mike Klepper
- You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. – Steven Levy
- I know I’ll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I’ll hold, I’ll hold. I know. – Sara Quin
- by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past – William Hardy McNeill
- The brain is a material thing, something you can hold in your hands. The mind is an immaterial thing, something only the Universe can hold. – Toni Sorenson
- Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe. – Abhijit Naskar
- When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man’s world. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. – Leo Tolstoy
- You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powerful person. – Hubert Martin
- But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments. – Khadija Rupa
- And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure. – Kanza Javed
- There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal. – Angelica Hopes
- Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. – Siri Hustvedt
- Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible. – Jacques Ellul
- Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light. – Kamand Kojouri
- Fragments are the only forms I trust. – Donald Barthelme
- Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- These fragments I have shored against my ruins – TS Eliot
- God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year. – Elizabeth George
- You didn’t learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics – Jeri Massi
- Fragments of energy sizzled against my skin where he touched me, like sparks that shoot from a sparkler you played with as a kid. – Jodie Andrefski
- America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm. – Rene Denfeld
- No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness. – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia