The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Quotes
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898What 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, 1958What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733