Brain/development

Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or development:

    “Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No, the world must be peopled.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Such condition of suspended judgment indeed, in its more genial development and under felicitous culture, is but the expectation, the receptivity, of the faithful scholar, determined not to foreclose what is still a question—the “philosophic temper,” in short, for which a survival of query will be still the salt of truth, even in the most absolutely ascertained knowledge.”
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)