Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.
If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.
I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
