Quotes for All
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power – the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. Erik Brynjolfsson
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power. Emma Goldman
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control? Frederick Lenz
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time … Read more
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. Frances Wright
I am not much of a mathematician, said the cigarette, but I can add to a man’s nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success. David Starr Jordan
A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a ‘downwards’ causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a … Read more
I’m the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet. David Klass