“To be successful, you don't need a beautiful face and a heroic body, what you need is a skillful mind and the ability to perform.”— Rowan Atkinson
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”— Aristotle
“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”— George Boole
“The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed.”— George Boole
“Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself, although they do not all do so in the same way. In presentation something is presented, in judgment something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired and so on.”— Franz Brentano
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”— Albert Einstein
“When a man says he has an open mind, he generally means he is in a state of doubt.”— George Barr McCutcheon
“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine... is entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle.”— Gilbert Ryle
“To the physiologist the brain is the organ of the mind, and it is in the physiological and pathological activities of the brain that the explanation of the phenomena of mind is to be sought.”— David Ferrier
“Consciousness is not a property of matter, and it cannot be detected in the laboratory.”— Gaston Bachelard