Intellectual Growth Quotes

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.

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.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

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. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.

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.

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 strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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.

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.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

All growth depends upon activity.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

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.

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

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.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.