Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

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

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Few things are as essential as education.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.