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Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897