Robin Williams Quotes

As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

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.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.

As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.