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Mind Quotes by Edith Wharton
- I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and…
- The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the…
- The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
- Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.
- The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,…
- I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
- Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle