James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

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

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

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

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

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

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

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.