We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbImagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603