Mental Expansion Quotes

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Education is a daily growth. It's not about the degrees but about the kind of person it makes one. I feel it makes a human being complete.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

The soul needs more space than the body.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

A very important part of life is growth - I need to learn things every day.