Dalai Lama Quotes

Your mind grows through use.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Education forms the common mind.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is in spirals.

The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.

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.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.