J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

People die when curiosity goes.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I like to discover new things, and I'm always testing new apps.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.