Without wide reading of all kinds, personal exploration, diverse experiences, and learning and travel, a person often turns to mocking and caricaturizing what he does not understand.

A lot of money does not produce knowledge, understanding, or wisdom.

The masses of people always want things oversimplified, which is why they are so easily manipulated.

Understood and applied knowledge is power.

Without a desire to learn whatever can be known, a person is trapped inside the limited knowledge and memories of his personal experience, his college or university, his preacher, hios church, his company, his nation, his culture, his times, the bias of news media and advanced education, or often merely of his parents and family.

But Knowledge is unlimited.

Creativity is unbound.

How foolish to let the endlessness of what is known and can be known to be judged by the small opinions, limited personal experience, hardened emotions, narrow attitudes, or confined knowledge and perspective of a few people in your family.

At any age, there is a whole huge world out there, that, because of your hardened perspective, you've never seen and never understood.

Every day, we use technological things that took hundreds or even thousands of years to develop--things of which we have not the slightest idea of their design, creation, or working.

95% of Americans never walk into a Barnes and Noble bookstore after high school or college.

In some ways, this is like staying at an 18- year-old understanding of the world for one's entire life.

This has got to be a sin.

The Bible says, "in your thinking be adults."

Develop your God-given potential.

Neither financial nor intellectual poverty are virtues.

Are you fully developing and expanding what God gave you?

Some areas of knowledge and experience that can open up and expand your life:

Theology

Philosophy

Cinema

History

Alternative Health

Business

Law

Psychology

Literature

Technology

Art

Science

Space Program and Exploration

International Travel