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Mind Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
- The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron…
- To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely…
- The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are…
- We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
- A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind
- Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
- The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no…
- Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.…
- Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn…
- Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
- Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,…
- Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs,…
- Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to…
- I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both…
- Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that…
- ... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...
- For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and…
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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