Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Quotes
What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCNot all heads have a brain.
—French proverbAny man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897