Honore de Balzac Quotes

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

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.

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

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

The mind requires regular use to remain strong.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

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.

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

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

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.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.