Anton du Beke Quotes

My ideal guy would be funny and fun to be around.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.'

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

Akshay Kumar is more than a son to me. What I love about him is that there is never a dull moment with him. He is always up to some nonsense.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Man is incurably curious.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.