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
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Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThough this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962