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Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb