As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbQuotes
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603