Anne Sullivan Quotes

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

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

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

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

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.