M. Carey Thomas Quotes

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

Your mind grows through use.

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

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

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Always educate yourself.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

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.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Minds ripen at very different ages.