Mental Waste Quotes

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Writing music is hard if your head is full of waste.

If there's garbage in one's head, that's what will come out.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you use to think about whether some celebrity was sleeping with another celebrity. The conjecture that goes along with that. You feel like your mind has been shot apart.

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.