Christopher Nolan Quotes

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

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

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

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

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

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

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

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

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.