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, 1971Quotes
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCMadness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbWe need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015