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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

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962