Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Quotes
The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807