Subject: Intelligence » Mind

Sir Stafford has a brilliant mind until it’s made up.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

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

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

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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

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

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

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

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

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

(1919 – ) American poet, painter & liberal activist

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 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

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

(1788 – 1824) English poet

Pain: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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.


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

English former football player & manager

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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)