A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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

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

The march of the human mind is slow.

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

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

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

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.