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What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899