Hilary Mason Quotes

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.

Keep interested, read books, watch television and try to keep in touch with life and what people are doing, seeing and enjoying.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

I just find something to learn in everything.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

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.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer