Brain
To Learn
“To learn something well, you need to study it for a while and then take a break.” – Loren Frank
Extraordinary Plasticity
“The nervous tissue seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity, either outward forces or inner tension can, from one hour to another, turn that structure into something different than it was.” -William James
The Way We Live
“Our ways of thinking, perceiving and acting as we now know, are not entirely determined by our genes. Nor are they entirely determined through our childhood experiences. We change them through the way we live.” -Nicholas Carr
Memory Expansion
“With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence.” -Nicholas Carr
Think & Memorize
“There is no such thing as memorizing. We can think, we can repeat, we can recall and we can imagine, but we aren’t built to memorize. Rather our brains are designed to think and automatically hold onto what’s important.” -Gabriel Wyner
Perception & Memory
“Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” -Gerald Edelman
The Average Human Mind
“The average human mind functions like a small pond, isolated from the great ocean.” -Tibetan Wisdom
Thought Seeds
“As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favorable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, … Read moreThought Seeds