Taylor Swift Quotes

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

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

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

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.

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

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.