Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

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

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

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

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

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

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

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

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

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

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

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

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

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

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

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

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.