Subject: Intelligence » Mind (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher

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.


I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

professional baseball player

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

English former football player & manager