Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Quotes
Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990It 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, 1958Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733