W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

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

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

I love learning new techniques.

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.

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

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

I grow old learning something new every day.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

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

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I may be older but I never stopped studying.