Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

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

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

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.

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

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

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.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

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

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

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

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Few things are as essential as education.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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

You have to learn and keep learning.