Mental Sloth Quotes

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

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

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

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.