Barbara Sukowa Quotes

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Libraries raised me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

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.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'