Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Quotes
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010