Georges Braque Quotes

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Language is the light of the mind

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.

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.