intellectual growth quotes

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.