Dorothea Brande Quotes

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

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

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

A closed mind is a dying mind.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

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

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

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.

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.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.