Ameen Rihani Quotes

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

The use of muscle is only good for running marathons these days. What workers need is a trained mind. Education is the most important thing that needs to be accomplished.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.