Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Quotes
What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbIs there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015