Mental Growth Quotes

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

There is another very specific quality which distinguishes them [man from animals], and which will admit of no dispute. This is the faculty of self-improvement, which, by the help of circumstances, gradually develops all the rest of our faculties, and is inherent in the species as in the individual: whereas a brute is, at the end of a few months, all he will ever be during his whole life, and his species, at the end of a thousand years, exactly what it was the first year of that thousand.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

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.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

The older you get, the lesser you are bothered by what others think.

When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.

When you are through learning you are through.