Mental Quotes

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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly… — Vince Lombardi
Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or… — Wallace D. Wattles
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa… — Bertrand Russell
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as… — Wilhelm Wundt
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. — William James
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the… — James Clerk Maxwell
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical… — James Jeans
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. — Richard Dawkins
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential… — James Madison
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't… — David Hockney
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe. — Eckhart Tolle
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy,… — Alexander McQueen
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… — Sigmund Freud

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