Francois Englert Quotes

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

I'm interested in everything.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

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

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.