The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Quotes
The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbSooner 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, 1930The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing