Mental Quotes

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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives… — Arnold Bennett
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like… — Unknown Author
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we… — Laozi
Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for… — Mahesh Babu
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,… — Plato
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness,… — Laozi
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish… — Noam Chomsky
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are… — Wilhelm Wundt
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental… — Wilhelm Wundt
Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the… — Wilhelm Wundt
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance… — Wilhelm Wundt
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. — Wilhelm Wundt
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature,… — Robin G. Collingwood
Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of… — Catherine Ponder
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Unknown Author
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will… — Nathan S. Kline
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities… — Unknown Author
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what… — E. Fuller Torrey
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — Unknown Author
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental… — E. Fuller Torrey
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment,… — Thomas Szasz
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are… — Peter Breggin
Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only… — Tony Robbins

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