Andy Richter Quotes

I'm interested in everything.

Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things.

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

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.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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