Christopher Morley Quotes

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 learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

I'm a sponge for information.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

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

You are like a sponge when you are young.

Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

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.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.