Tess Gerritsen Quotes

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

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

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

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

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

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 always like learning the small details about a subject.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

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

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.