Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Quotes
The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899