Disuse Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we… — Richard J. Foster
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as… — Peter Andre
When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on… — Dallin H. Oaks
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power… — Amy Carmichael
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are… — Clarence Robison
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the… — Christopher Fry
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in… — Leonardo da Vinci
In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment,… — Michael Savage
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but… — Toni Morrison
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child… — Walt Disney
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose. — Edwin Louis Cole
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. — Leonardo da Vinci
Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters… — Linford Christie
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married.… — Raymond Burr
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause… — Joel Barlow

Who Wrote These Disuse Quotes

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