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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

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

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733