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The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906