Weak Mind Quotes

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

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

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

The strong are so stupid.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.