The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Quotes
The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbUnderstanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990