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The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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, 1971

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990