Activity Quote by Anatole France Download Open image “The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.” — Anatole France ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Inspirational Love Mania Thinking
“People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“About 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things. — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
It is no surprise that many people resist the arduous effort involved in continually monitoring and revising their thinking... Yet if all the energy… — M Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare penetrate into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
