Carl Sagan Quotes

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

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

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

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

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

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

People's brains work differently. The brain is like a muscle and you have to train it, keep it active, keep active in races. I notice if I haven't raced for a while. It's hard to see things clearly so you have to relearn that.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.