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As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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, 1971

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815