Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Quotes
What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170From 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, 1978The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775