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The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815