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Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

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

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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