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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

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb