Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
All growth depends upon activity.
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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