Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

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

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

I learn about history and religion and politics. It keeps me tuned in. If I hear something on the news, I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is what somebody is talking about in the play that I'm about to do in two hours.' The act itself - of rehearsing, failing, and still persisting and trying to create - keeps me curious, keeps me searching.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.