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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

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

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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 march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—George Santayana, 1920

It 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, 1958