Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899
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Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906