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The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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 real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897