Stephen Colbert Quotes

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

I just find something to learn in everything.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.

The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

I think because I went to school and because I'm a student, I'm so open and I'm a sponge, and I just wanna learn everything to make sure everything is perfect.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

I'm hungry to learn, so I always have my big ears open fully, ready to learn every single minute when I play.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.