Konnie Huq Quotes

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

The kids say, 'Oh are we weird somehow?' and I say, 'It's OK to be different.'

I'm a very open person, and I am not ashamed of it being out there. It's part of life.

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I'm still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that's a new thing for me and I'm loving it.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.

I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. But in the long run, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt. That's what I said at the awards there: "Go with yourself." And that's what I did.