Joseph Joubert quote: “It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.”

“Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity”

Walter Dill Scott (1869–1955) President of Northwestern university and psychologist

Attributed to Walter Dill Scott in: ‎Sterling W. Sill Benson (1974). That ye might have life. p. 274

“The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.”

Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

“The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

Source: The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary (1927)

“Everyone less mentally ill than me is Privileged, everyone more mentally ill than me is Toxic, everyone equally mentally ill to me is Cool,”

Dril Twitter user

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Tweets by year, 2020

“Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.”

Walter Dill Scott (1869–1955) President of Northwestern university and psychologist

Source: Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, 1911, p. 134

“Each mental wave we send out from the mind,
Or base, or kind,
Completes its circuit, then with added force
Seeks its own source.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Effects.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

“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 (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Statement to a reporter a few months before he died, as quoted at Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellinvent.html

“Mental illness is not funny.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

VALIS (1981)

“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”

Michael Savage (1942) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, and Author

title of book (2005)

“"SIGNIFICS" - OR MENTAL HYGIENE”

Colin Cherry (1914–1979) British scientist

Source: On Human Communication (1957), Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Information, p.219

The first section title of CHAPTER SIX On the Logic of communication (Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics)

“It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.”

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