Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive…

— Herbert Spencer

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

— Benjamin Graham

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy…

— Jean Cocteau

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due…

— Herbert Spencer

“Your mind is a wealth-carrier – a chest filled with hidden treasures.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts,…

— Charles Darwin

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind…

— Sri Aurobindo

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes…

— Charles Darwin

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

— Samuel Johnson

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

— Barbara Jordan

“Knowledge cannot be passed, like some material substance, from one person to another. Thoughts are not things which may be held and handled. They…

— John M Gregory

Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain,…

— Wallace D. Wattles

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning…

— Antonio Gramsci