Joshua Reynolds Quotes

Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

Education forms the common mind.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.