Quotes About Curiosity

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.

I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.

Growing up, I had always been an avid bookworm and a straight-A student. I approached my cancer the same way I approached writing my senior thesis in college: I buried my head in research journals, interviewed experts and scoured the Internet for information.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

I always tell people this; when they say, 'What's gonna happen here? What's gonna happen here?' I always tell people, 'You think you want to know, but you really don't. You want to experience the event as it happens on TV.'

I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.

I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in big questions. Who are we? What are we doing here? But the chances to discuss philosophy were quite thin on the ground.

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

I am always looking forward to learn new things in my life.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.