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Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

It 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, 1958

Sooner 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, 1930

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015