The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Quotes
What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Sooner 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, 1930If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCBrains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920