Aaron Dessner Quotes

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.