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| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |  |
| 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. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Brown Hand | |
| 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. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| 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. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Professor at the Breakfast Table | |
| "To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Devil's Foot | |
| "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." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
| "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
| "A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get." | L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
| His life has been spent in devotion to ideas. The passions of his brain have consumed the passions of his body. | Sherwood Anderson | The Triumph of the Egg (Seeds) | |
| "Ah, me! it's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | |
| A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
| "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." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Final Problem | |
| "I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" | William Shakespeare | Othello | |
| It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | |
| Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters | |
| What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters | |
| "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. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | |
| "The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time." | Wilkie Collins | Man and Wife | |
| "I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of The Four | |
| "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." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear | |
