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The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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 most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969