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Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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 mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962