Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

People die when curiosity goes.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Whatever it was, my mom said, I'm going to seek out more. And so I was constantly confused, which is sometimes a little bit, you know, disorienting. But I feel like it leads to a way more colorful life.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

What I know bores me.

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.