Gertrude Atherton - Mind Quotes

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No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Gertrude Atherton

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Gertrude Atherton

When the horrors that men and women make for themselves come into my mind, I go out and look at the solitary peak that towers above the long receding range of mountains at the head of the lake.

Gertrude Atherton

The world is equally astonished—and resentful—at every new discovery, but in a short time accepts it as a commonplace. The layman resents all new ideas, but the adjustment of the human mind to the inevitable is common even among savages.

Gertrude Atherton

Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

Gertrude Atherton