Mental Quotes
2442 Mental quotes by 1534 unique authors
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There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their…
— Frank Zappa
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It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever…
— Salvador Allende
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as…
— Frederick Douglass
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Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's…
— Vijay Singh
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words,…
— Thomas Hobbes
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When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
— Steven Pinker
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The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the…
— Jonathan Haidt
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You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.
— Phil Gramm
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What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
— James J. Gibson
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Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from…
— Al-Ghazali
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely…
— Abraham Cahan
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Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a…
— Chip Heath
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Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.
— Mother Teresa
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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with…
— Teresa of Avila
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
— Stephen Spender
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.
— David Satcher
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
— Franz Liszt
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not…
— Leonard Cohen
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All the physical comes from the mental.
— Clara Hughes
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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and…
— Jimmy Page
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