Atrophy Quotes - Page 4

• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  Ezra Pound

  Decay, Literature, Rehabilitation

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you.

  Emmet Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Law

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Daughter, Reading, Writing

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