Lloyd Alexander Quotes

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

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.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

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

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

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

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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