Able Quote by Don Ameche

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

— Werner Heisenberg

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around…

— Franz Liszt

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

— William Feather

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

— Barbara Sukowa

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards,…

— Frederick William Robertson

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

— F. Sionil Jose

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my…

— Win Butler

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

— Michel de Montaigne

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction…

— Ada Lovelace