Mental Quotes

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

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, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.