Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Quotes
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC