Kevin Powers Quotes

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

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

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I like to discover new things.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

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'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

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