The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Quotes
The 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, 1978The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbSooner 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, 1930The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603