Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Quotes
The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775It 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, 1906What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841