Terry Francona Quotes

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

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

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

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

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.