Howard Gardner Quotes

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.

Simply with a change of mind, you can change your life.

Your mind grows through use.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.