Lucy Dacus Quotes

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

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.