"Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries."

-- Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Helping Others Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Why be normal? What's the point?”
“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“I'm connected with a lot of different paranormal groups out there worldwide, a lot of different spiritual people. My networking over the course of the past 40 years has really grown where I deal with quite a bit. There's a lot of work that I do behind-the-scenes that I just don't ever talk about or things that don't always come to the forefront as far as investigating and getting involved with spiritual people, meaning any type of clergy, because I do work with a lot of them behind-the-scenes.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“My father always says, â€˜Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.â€™ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. Itâ€™s been quite nice because Iâ€™ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what theyâ€™ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.”
“I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient as an artist. I am in law school and that has helped me in so many ways. It's cool to know what I'm signing and I hope to be able to advise other artists.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.”
“I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.”
“We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.”

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