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Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962