James Mercer Quotes

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

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

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

You learn something new on every film.

… after some hundreds of years of experience we think that we have learned … how to teach what is known. But now with the undeniable upsurge of scientific research, we cannot continue to rely on the mere fact that we have learned how to teach what is known. We must learn to teach the best attitude to what is not yet known.