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Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

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