What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Quotes
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971It 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, 1958We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing