Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Quotes
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Sooner 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, 1930It 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, 1958The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920