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, 1930Quotes
Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCIt 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, 1958Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962