Tim Ferriss Quotes

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

I think better when I'm not sober

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.