Mental Action Quotes

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.