Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Quotes
“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841It 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, 1958The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing