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Mind Quotes by Yann Martel
- Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. ..
- Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
- My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't,…
- The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
- High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your…
- I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how…
- If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out:…
- As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the…
- To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake…
- The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes…
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