Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbQuotes
What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899It 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