Opal Tometi Quotes

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

You always want to learn, you know.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

I'm willing and excited to learn whatever I can.

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

James Remar is a student of life.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Education is freedom.