Subject: Intelligence » Mind

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

What a waste it is to lose one's mind; or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

He would come in and say he changed his mind… which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I am in the prime of senility.

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

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter

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

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

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

professional baseball player

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

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

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

English former football player & manager

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

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

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

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter