Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Quotes
The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897It 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, 1958What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899