There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Quotes
The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962If 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 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
As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb