Mental Inactivity Quotes

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Grief is a species of idleness.