Mental Vigor Quotes

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.