As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbQuotes
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Sooner 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, 1930Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962