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Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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