Howard Gardner Quotes

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

I love learning new techniques.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our 'multiple intelligences.'

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it's about mindset.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

Everything is educational.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.