Mental Activity Quotes

24 Mental Activity quotes by 22 unique authors

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering. — Ayya Khema
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
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
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
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. — Marcel Proust
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the… — Milarepa
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. — John Updike
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment,… — Stephen Hunter
Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there isnext to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted… — Superman

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