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Mind Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick,…
- I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
- Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,…
- If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend…
- I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
- But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and…
- What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
- The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
- The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above…
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
- In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
- I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place…
- I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of…
- Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his…
- If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend…
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- 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