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

—Donald Trump, 2015

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603