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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

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