Subject: Intelligence » Mind

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter

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

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

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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

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

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.


Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I told her the thing I loved most about her was her mind… because that's what told her to get into bed with me naked.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

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

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

professional baseball player

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

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)

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

I am in the prime of senility.

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

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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