Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbQuotes
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The 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. 1920The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969