Mental Quotes - page 6

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so. (Michael Lewis (author))
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass. View quote
John Dos Passos
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. View quote
Michael Chabon
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought. View quote
Jerry Fodor
Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them. View quote
Rex Stout
Whatever we know without inference is mental. View quote
Bertrand Russell
...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. View quote
Henry Fielding
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning. View quote
Linus Torvalds
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things. (Alexander Graham Bell)
There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. View quote
Northrop Frye
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. View quote
Yogi Berra
The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience. View quote
Colin Wilson
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint. View quote
Lewis Carroll
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time. View quote
Bob Marley
Keep in mind that the practice of dream interpretation is not generally useful for spiritual advancement. [...] People codify things and events as positive or negative based on culture. Even within a culture there can be variations of codification. Thus, dream analysis by the average person often can lead to confusion due to personal speculation and mental gymnastics. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. View quote
Franz Liszt
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. (Edward de Bono)
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. View quote
Wole Soyinka
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my Bow of burning gold, Bring me my Arrows of desire, Bring me my Spear - O clouds, unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant land. View quote
William Blake
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. View quote
Carl Jung
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport. View quote
Johnny Miller