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Intellectual growth Quotes

"Understanding itself is a dynamic and context-dependent process."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"We live through the books. Through them, we are able to function well as citizens of the world"

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done"

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"

"Ideas are more important than age"

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do and what you don't know."

"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself."

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think"

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own"

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind "

"The good of a book lies in its being read."

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