Subject: Intelligence » Mind

Some people hear voices; some see invisible people; others have no imagination whatsoever.

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

(1919 – ) American poet, painter & liberal activist

Just imagine what he’ll be like when senility kicks in… if it hasn’t already.

English former football player & manager

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

(1891 – 1968) American publisher of The New York Times

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The Cardinal is at his wit’s end; it is true… that he had not far to go.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

If most people said what’s on their minds, they’d be speechless.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind… or not to have a mind at all; how true that is.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Right now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

professional baseball player

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

(1929 – ) American writer

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

He] had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

(1948 – ) English novelist

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

(1928 – 1982) American novelist, short story writer & essayist