The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Quotes
Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbIt 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, 1958What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897