To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Quotes
The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Sooner 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, 1930The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978