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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920