Vanessa Brown Quotes

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

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

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

The learning process continues until the day you die.

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

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

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

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

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

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

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

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

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

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

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Always educate yourself.