Aleister Crowley Quotes

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.