Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.