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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 march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887