A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.

A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.

Man’s mind, once stretched by new ideas, never regains its original dimensions.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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

once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension.

The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension.

I learned that once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension.

"'The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' That's from Emerson, by the way. All I was hoping to do is stretch some goddamn minds." (Epilogue)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Albert Einstein said, “The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

No man’s thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.