Mental Power Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

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
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains. — Herbert Spencer
Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or… — Wallace D. Wattles
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
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
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not… — Arthur Lynch
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of… — Antonio Gramsci
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and… — Alexander Guchkov
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. — Samuel Johnson
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… — Voltairine de Cleyre
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of… — Frances Wright
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
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
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical… — David Starr Jordan
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. — Vinoba Bhave
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as… — Ludwig von Mises
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo… — James Merrill
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet. — David Klass

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