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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Sooner 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, 1930

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899