Germaine de Staël Quotes

The human mind always makes progress, but it is in spirals.

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

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

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

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

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

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

The march of the human mind is slow.

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

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.

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

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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.

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.