What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Quotes
The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990