Psychology Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds…

— Jeanette Winterson

“My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now,' my mind repeating Schrodinger's…

— Jeanette Winterson

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's…

— Jeanette Winterson

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, 'more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. 'It's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me…

— Jeanette Winterson

“There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only…

— Jeanette Winterson

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,…

— Jeanette Winterson

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom…

— Jeanette Winterson

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private…

— Jeanette Winterson

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get…

— Jeanette Winterson

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not…

— Jeanette Winterson

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,…

— Jeanette Winterson

I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy…

— Jeanette Winterson

Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Time has no meaning, space and place have no meaning, on this journey. All times can be inhabited, all places visited. In…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been…

— Jeanette Winterson

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

— Jeanette Winterson

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing…

— Jeanette Winterson