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Quotes About Mental

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom and prosperity, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, a superior kind of animal, you will remain in bondage—in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
~ Emmet Fox
We know the Truth; we do not judge by appearances. We know that we live in a mental world, and to know that is the key to life. If a child could be taught only one thing, it should be taught that this is a mental world. I would let all the other things go and teach him that.
~ Emmet Fox
Remembering is mental time travel.
~ Endel Tulving
Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly
~ Eoin Colfer
he would simply have to repress the emotions he was experiencing. Very unhealthy, psychologically speaking
~ Eoin Colfer
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
~ Epictetus
Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.
~ Epictetus
So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously.
~ Epictetus
Atractivo» significa habitualmente un buen conjunto de cualidades que son populares y por las cuales hay demanda en el mercado de la personalidad. Las características específicas que hacen atractiva a una persona dependen de la moda de la época, tanto física como mentalmente.
~ Eric Fromm
I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, "Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose
~ Erich Fromm
all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep
~ Erich Fromm
her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.
~ Amy Witting
Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.
~ Ana Monnar
Je dis la folie, et non point la démence. La démence est la perte des facultés intellectuelles. La folie n'est qu'un usage bizarre et singulier de ces facultés.
~ Anatole France
Indeed, one could define a mental representation as a conceptual structure designed to sidestep the usual restrictions that short-term memory places on mental processing.
~ Anders Ericsson
The main purpose of deliberate practice is to develop effective mental representations, and, as we will discuss shortly, mental representations in turn play a key role in deliberate practice.
~ Anders Ericsson
The thing all mental representations have in common is that they make it possible to
~ Anders Ericsson
one could define a mental representation as a conceptual structure designed to sidestep the usual restrictions that short-term memory places on mental processing. The
~ Anders Ericsson
depth of focus brings the spectator into a relation with the image closer to that which he enjoys with reality. Therefore it is correct to say that, independently of the contents of the image, its structure is more realistic; (2) That it implies, consequently, both a more active mental attitude on the part of the spectator and a more positive contribution on his part to the action in progress.
~ André Bazin