John Milton Quotes

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

You always need to be curious and study.

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

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

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

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

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

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.