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Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

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

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775