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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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