Mental States Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi
• If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will… — William Walker Atkinson
• Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . . — Gautama Buddha
• Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But… — Russ Shafer-Landau
• Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi
• Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
• If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes… — Dalai Lama
• By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade… — Edward S. Walker, Jr.
• We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on… — Jerome Bruner
• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system. — Norman Cousins
• The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you. — Frederick Lenz
• Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. — Frederick Lenz
• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in… — Knut Hamsun
• What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states. — Richard Powers
• You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a… — Wallace D. Wattles
• We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour. — John O'Keefe

Who Wrote These Mental States Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Mental States Quotes as follows:

• 2 Mental States Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
• 2 Mental States Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus
• 2 Mental States Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Mental States Quote by William Walker Atkinson
• 1 Mental States Quote by Gautama Buddha
• 1 Mental States Quote by Russ Shafer-Landau
• 1 Mental States Quote by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• 1 Mental States Quote by Dalai Lama
• 1 Mental States Quote by Edward S. Walker, Jr.
• 1 Mental States Quote by Jerome Bruner
• 1 Mental States Quote by Norman Cousins
• 1 Mental States Quote by Knut Hamsun
• 1 Mental States Quote by Richard Powers
• 1 Mental States Quote by Wallace D. Wattles
• 1 Mental States Quote by John O'Keefe