Quotes on Intellectual Growth

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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