Timothy Spall Quotes

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

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

I hope I'm always learning something.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

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

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.