The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Quotes
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 BCAs is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbAny man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Sooner 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, 1930Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898