Plato Quotes

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

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

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

Every minute of every day, we should be challenging ourselves to grow intellectually and to stay curious about the world.

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

If I believe that I have done it all, there's nothing more for me to learn and explore.

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.