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 BCQuotes
Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971It 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, 1958Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603