Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

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

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

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

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

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

I like to make people think a little bit.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

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

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

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

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

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