Mental Processes

Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or processes:

    “The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)