Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Quotes
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733It 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, 1958The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015