A. N. Wilson Quotes

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.

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

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Your mind grows through use.

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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.

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

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.