Gwynne Shotwell Quotes

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

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

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.

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

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

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.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

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.

Write about what you want to know.

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