Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Quotes
Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThe march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884What 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