Audra McDonald Quotes

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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