As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbQuotes
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, 1958Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949