Garrett Fort Quotes

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

If we don’t go, we don’t know.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.