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As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

It 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, 1958

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949