Billy Gibbons Quotes

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

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

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

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.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

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.

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

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

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

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

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

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.