As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbQuotes
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775What 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 most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815