Russell Smith Quotes

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be learning stuff.

We really love to learn and explore things.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

I've always liked discovering things.

I grew up curious, and I always wanted to learn about different things.

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I would read. I would explore

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.