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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

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967