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, 1851Quotes
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Sooner 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, 1930