Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Quotes
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, 1971Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbIt is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603