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Mind Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with…
- There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain…
- Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he…
- I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
- There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
- What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us…
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