Plutarch Quotes

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

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

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

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

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

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

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

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

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

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

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

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.