Mental Formation Quotes

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.