What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Quotes
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884It 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