Nicholas Brendon Quotes

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We've got to dumb America up again.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

A man hears only what he understands.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.