To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Quotes
Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603