Michael Palin Quotes

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

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

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I'm insatiably curious.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

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?

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

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

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.