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“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Sooner 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, 1930