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Intellectual growth Quotes

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"

"Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live"

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"Beware the man of a single book."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts"

"Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous."

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

"The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have"

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero"

"It's a sign of a democratic education to seek complexity"

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