The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.
– Mortimer J Adler
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- But then all writers smoke, don’t they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy? – TC Boyle
- What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. – Mortimer J Adler
- True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. – Mortimer J Adler
- The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. – Mortimer J Adler
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J Adler
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J Adler
- Books are absent teachers. – Mortimer J Adler
- Don’t try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you. – Mortimer J Adler
- The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. – Mortimer J Adler
- From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. – Mortimer J Adler
- Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it. – Mortimer J Adler
- Diesel had gotten his nickname because he was built like a Mack truck. …. He stood six feet, six inches tall and his muscles had muscles. – Amanda Carlson
- I hate studying and I hate partying. But I’m okay with motocross. And muscles.Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie. – Cheyanne Young
- Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy. – Omar El Akkad
- The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. – Erich Fromm
- Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles. – Ana Monnar
- My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind-”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. – Renata Adler
- To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. – Ian Mortimer
- Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel…A Very English Affair) – Faith Mortimer
- Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others. – Amit Ray
- I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch. – Kathy Lette
- There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn’t me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that. – Steve Moore
- And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles. – CS Lewis
- If you have to fight and want to win, use the strongest muscles: Heart. – Corina AbdulahmNegura
- The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself! – Avijeet Das
- The volume of your muscles doesn’t make you a good husband. The way you treat her does. – Amen Muffler
- The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. – Germaine Greer
- Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles. – Richie Norton
- Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Only the legs that run are those that really have muscles! – Israelmore Ayivor
- The closer she hip sways to me, the taller and tenser I stand, until I’m so rigid my muscles ache. – Poppet
- Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life. – Dinty W Moore
- Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong. – Jeff Ashton
- There’s a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself. – Alexandra Kleeman
- Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret. – Toni Sorenson
- Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret. – Toni Sorenson
- Because it’s not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside. – Colleen Hoover