Intellectual growth Quotes

"There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness" "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "The power to question is the basis of all human progress" "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "Beware the man of a single book." "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting" "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own" "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 man who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind " "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."