Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Quotes
The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603