Mental Quotes

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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
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. — Russell Brand
Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities. — Swami Vivekananda
My meditation techniques ARE dangerous. In fact there cannot be any meditation techniques which are not dangerous. If they are not dangerous, they are not… — Rajneesh
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases. — Robert Kiyosaki
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a… — John Silber
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun. — Andy Borowitz
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… — Charles Darwin
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their… — Rajneesh
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the… — Sri Aurobindo
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity… — Dalai Lama
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which… — Dalai Lama

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