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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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884