Mental Quotes

2442 Mental quotes by 1534 unique authors

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but… — Albert Schweitzer
I have this mental sickness called creativity — Philippe Starck
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. — Vittorio Gassman
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or… — H. L. Mencken
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half… — Thomas Buckner
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a… — George Eliot
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion. — Abraham Lincoln
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than… — Joshua Waitzkin
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for… — Unknown Author
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative… — Isidore of Seville
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. — Teresa of Avila
We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast;… — Donald M. Nelson
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods… — John Dewey
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing… — Zhuangzi
In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out. — Lindsey Vonn
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of… — Adam Zagajewski
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain — Tina Louise
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard… — Ernest Dimnet

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