Mental Economy Quotes

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.