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Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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, 1990

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

It 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, 1958

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841