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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957