Martha Stewart Quotes

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The book you don't read won't help.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.