To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Quotes
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbBrains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775