In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Quotes
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Sooner 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, 1930What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844