Napoleon Hill Quotes

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The mind is what the mind is fed.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

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

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Thinking nurseth thinking.

My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.