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Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603