The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Quotes
What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhat the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971