Thomas Keating Quotes

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

We have our own brains.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.