Mental Dullness Quotes

Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

… naturally dull and stupid.

I get dumber as the day goes along. Every second of the day that goes along, I get stupider.

I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

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

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.