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Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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