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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603