William Godwin Quotes

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.