Grenville Kleiser Quotes

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

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

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

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

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

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

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

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