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Mind Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
- I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the…
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something…
- The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
- I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a…
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
- If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the…
- The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at…
- He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not…
- Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do…
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