Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978It 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, 1958We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957