A. N. Wilson Quotes

My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

To make headway, improve your head.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.