Mental Activity Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
— Charles Darwin
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental…
— Brian Eno
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Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
— Ayya Khema
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When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of…
— Gangaji
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
— Aldous Huxley
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There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it…
— Noam Chomsky
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Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
— Marcel Proust
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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…
— Arthur Koestler
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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by…
— Gelek Rimpoche
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An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise…
— Edward Everett Hale
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything…
— John Stuart Mill
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
— H. L. Mencken
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And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral…
— Oliver Sacks
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It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.
— Ted Chiang
Who Wrote These Mental Activity Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Mental Activity Quotes as follows: