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The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799