Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Quotes
Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWe need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920