Mental Limitation Quotes

The trouble with you, Eisenhower, is that you're too small minded.

I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.

... an amiable dunce.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

… naturally dull and stupid.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.