Barry Corbin Quotes

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

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head

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

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Read books. They are good for us.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

I need to learn every day.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds—funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.