Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Music can be a source of escapism.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards.
Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.
I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me.
