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The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

If 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

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887