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The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897