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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

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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 mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb